Between June 6 and June 9, 1944, some of the most brutal fighting of D-Day took place at La Fière Bridge, where the 82nd Airborne Division held off repeated German counterattacks to secure the ...

woman and child just went to work," Krier recalled Wednesday as she visited the site of an iconic D-Day battle, Pegasus Bridge. The North Dakota native was 17 when she went to work in 1943 as a ...

In a battle that will rage for six months ... and descends into enemy territory. June 6: D-Day. Over 160,000 Allied troops and 30,000 vehicles are landed along a 50-mile stretch of fortified ...

Day has been installed on the town's quay.The circular plaque, on the wall of Customs House, acknowledges the town's contribution during Operation Overlord in 1944.It replaces a commemorative stone, ...

One week after the Allied victory on D-Day, de Gaulle returned to French soil ... He suffered his worst defeat in battle during his September 1944 attempt to cross the Rhine River at the Dutch ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s government has depicted the province on a battle footing against the ... with references to Winston Churchill, D-Day and the fight against Nazism.

Even the references to the previous happier relationship with America was couched in terms of a "bond forged in battle." "We stormed the beaches at Normandy together on D-Day, fighting to liberate ...