POINTE DU HOC, France -- Aging U.S. Army Rangers still find it hard to talk about the D-Day climb that killed so many friends. "I don't tell war stories," said Charles Ryan, of St. Louis, who was in ...

Sixty years ago this weekend, Allied troops launched one of the boldest offensives of World War II. They invaded Normandy to reclaim France and defeat the Germans. WTOC spent some time talking with ...

On eve of D-Day events, the French leader remains critical of U.S. Iraq policy. PARIS -- President Bush and President Jacques Chirac sought to move beyond bitter differences over Iraq on Saturday, ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France Sixty years on, the sober expanse of white crosses has lost none of its power, but the men who return to mourn are growing feebler and fewer. "The veterans are mostly in ...

D-Day in Normandy on June 6, 1944 was, in the words of the late historian Stephen Ambrose, "The climactic battle of World War II." The combined American, British and Canadian invasion of ...

D-Day, the invasion of German-held western Europe by the Allies – primarily the U.S., Great Britain and Canada – happened on June 6, 1944. The plan, code named Operation Overlord, had been in the ...