Gear Up: Omaha Beach, Normandy, ... It was to surprise and confuse these German soldiers and their generals that air bombardments had taken place over much of the French coastline for months.

GoRuck Selection puts candidates through 48 hours of hell. This year’s event occurred on the sacred sands of Normandy, and a German athlete was the last one standing.

A military honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of Army 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind to his final resting place at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 23, 2024.

For the past 10 years, a cadre of field researchers in France has been digging up, documenting and cataloging the physical remains of the Normandy invasion. War re-enactors on the site of a German ...

U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division ride through Normandy in vintage military vehicles June 3, 2025, during a World War II battlefield tour around Carentan, France, where the Screaming ...

This originally appeared on ProPublica.. U.S. Army Private First Class Lawrence S. Gordon — killed in Normandy in 1944, then mistakenly buried as a German soldier — will soon be going home to ...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin speaks to Soldiers participating in D-Day 79. 600 Soldiers from 19 different units supported the “D-Day 79” ceremonies in the week leading up to June 6.

Visitors walk among gravestones at the German Cemetery where approximately 21,000 German World War II soldiers are buried on June 5, 2014 at La Cambe, France.

June 6, 2025, is the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion that definitively turned the tide of World War II and eventually led to the fall of the Nazis and their allies.

Some of the first American soldiers to attack the German defenses in Higgins Boats (LCVPs) approach Omaha Beach near Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Plastic covers protect the soldier’s ...