D-Day

"We will accept nothing less than full Victory!"

“I wasn’t there in 1944 in June on Omaha Beach, but seeing that I somehow felt I was."

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

"I've stood up behind a machine gun and burned through six barrels in two hours, and there was nothing left but death and misery."

Despite multiple public accounts of his bravery, Army Cpl. Waverly Woodson was thwarted from receiving the Medal of Honor honor twice, a bipartisan group of lawmakers says

On D-Day, Capt. Leonard “Max” Schroeder became the first American soldier to hit the sand at Normandy

Heroes, all.

Here are eight historic photos from the days leading up to, during, and after one of the most brutal battles in contemporary history.

As the sun set on the blood-stained beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's message to the thousands of Allied troops dispatched to carry out the largest amphibious landing in military history rang true: "Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely"

U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment reenact the climb at Pointe Du Hoc, Omaha Beach France, as...

“A lot of people are going through a lot of problems with the [coronavirus] ... I just thought this would add a little humor or something to the whole thing.”

"I had the feeling God kept me alive for some reason and maybe this is it ... As a seaman, having the executive officer's daughter getting in touch with me 75 years later, it's unbelievable."

This is what it sounds like when more than 156,000 enormous pairs of balls roll up on a French beach ready to kick some Nazi ass

British Gen. Bernard "Monty" Montgomery served as a ground commander for Anglo-American forces under Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Despite the important role gliders played in transporting men and equipment during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the contributions of North Carolina's Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base have been largely forgotten

Well, uh...

"In seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe."

No similar wartime engineering feat has been tried since

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected to fetch more than $55,000 at auction next week,

With the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy just over the horizon, a group of U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers commemorated the valor of their uniformed predecessors with a uniquely picturesque parachute jump over France.

A Virginia Army National Guard unit travelled to the Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in late April for a relatively unusual training exercise: firing a howitzer from a landing craft in the Army's first waterborne artillery mission since the Vietnam War and this particular unit's first waterborne artillery mission since the D-Day landings nearly 75 years ago

But they'll be jumping with an item not on the packing list of World War II U.S. soldiers — or at least not the official one

D-Day veteran James McCue died a hero. About 500 strangers made sure of it

A rare D-Day flag that flew on a U.S. Navy ship leading the allied advance at the beaches of Normandy nearly 75 years ago will be returned to America after going on display in the Netherlands on Monday

MANCHESTER — It didn't take long for the U.S. Army to get Francis Byrne into combat. A day after he...