Today marks the anniversary of one of the most significant military operations in modern history: the D-Day Normandy landings ...

shows the Normandy coast. ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images Former commando Pat Churchill stands in the map room where the D-Day landing beaches are marked at Southwick House near Portsmouth in ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 ...

D-Day on June 6 1944 marked the date when approximately 156,000 British, American and Canadian forces landed on five ...

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

Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. The ...

Referring to huge maps of the Normandy coast on the wall in front of her, she painstakingly created maps for landing craft crews. Now 103, Lamb recently told The Associated Press that it was ...

Lamb spent the months before D-Day alone in a tiny room in central London drawing the detailed maps that guided landing craft to the beaches of Normandy as Allied forces began their invasion of ...