A U.S. flag lies as a marker on a destroyed bunker two days after the strategic site overlooking D-Day beaches was captured ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower. His penciled battle plan for D-Day took up no more than one piece of paper and included a note that said: "The key note of everything to be SIMPLICITY." Montgomery's plans ...

D-Day was supposed to be executed on June ... and "Overlord," which was the plan for the invasion and Battle of Normandy, according to The National World War II Museum. Air efforts began early ...

Veterans are gathering on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment ...

D-Day. The climactic battle of World War II. The United States and its Allies landed nearly 160,000 men, with more than 9,000 killed or wounded, in the first 24 hours alone. "The Great Crusade ...

The bottom line: The British, finally, fully signed onto D-Day. "Despite this glossing over, a plan now existed where there had been no plan," wrote Rick Atkinson in "The Day of Battle ...