Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6 ... a boost in British morale during the dark early days of the war.

Commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings began on Thursday with a military piper playing a lament at sea at the exact moment of the beach invasion in France in 1944.