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.

Private First-Class Martin Stark was on his way to Normandy when his ship hit a German mine and he was killed in action in 1944. 80 years later friends and family came together in LaPorte receive ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day" as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe.