In just six weeks of 1940, Nazi Germany toppled France in one of the most shocking campaigns of World War II. This video examines the strategy, the speed of the Blitzkrieg, and the collapse of French ...

Lt. Charles L. Thomas understated his part in the action, saying, “I know I was sent out to locate and draw the enemy fire, but I didn’t mean to draw that much.” (Army) War heroes seldom choose their ...

Stan Friday, 96, had not been back to Normandy since the war. Before this week, Stan Friday had not been back to Normandy, France, since he and Allied forces stormed its beaches to liberate Europe ...

PARIS — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...