WASHINGTON — On D-Day, June 6, 1944, paratroopers of the U.S. Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. near and in the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise in ...

Witness a complete WWII strategic bombing mission over Germany, from the initial briefing to the perilous return, in this ...

After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine ...

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