This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline that was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. American troops attacked Utah and Omaha beaches.

Dive into the brutal battles of Normandy as we explore the fierce clashes between Allied forces and Germany’s 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This documentary covers the intense combat these ...

By the end of the Normandy Campaign, at least 73,000 allied troops had been killed and 153,000 were wounded. About 20,000 civilians lost their lives, while between 4,000 and 9,000 German soldiers ...

To put it in context, this was more than the German losses in the entire Normandy campaign (240,000 casualties, 210,000 captured, 1,500 tanks and 20,000 vehicles destroyed).

He landed on June 16, 10 days after the Normandy campaign began on D-Day, with the 45th Evacuation Hospital. "Today I plan on, and I know we are going to Omaha Beach, maybe walk on the sand, up ...

Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944 ...