PORTSMOUTH, EnglandPORTSMOUTH, England — The British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in Northern France didn’t need a calendar to ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already begun hours earlier.

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces ...

Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

During WWII, scientists experimented on themselves to help divers and submarine crews. The scientists conducted over 600 experiments on themselves, breathing CO2, oxygen, and more gases. The British ...