FILE PHOTO: Paratroopers jump into Normandy to pay tribute to the soldiers who parachuted in on D-Day in Sannerville, Normandy PARIS (Reuters) - British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind ...

Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day, made up of major forces from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada and 12 other Allied nations. Some 23,400 airborne troops landed in Normandy from 822 ...

In the days following D-Day, American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne clashed with German Fallschirmjäger units in the hedgerows and villages of Normandy. This video retraces those encounters, ...

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. Its success heralded the beginning of the ...