Sometimes, a flight means more than merely transporting a person from one city to another. “Why We Dream,” a feature documentary that screens today at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the moving ...

Eighty years ago, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nearly 200,000 thousand soldiers, principally Americans, Brits ...

Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France — The word "hero" is overused. But if not for the courage of the few remaining D-Day survivors and their friends who fell as they launched the fight to oust Adolf ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Frank Walk was in a hurry. The U.S. Army captain had been ordered to bring top-secret planning ...

On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France became the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. The success of the operation, called Operation Overlord and most ...

Rows of white crosses, and now and then a Star of David, roll over the green bluffs at the U.S. military cemetery in Normandy. Part of the power is their simplicity and sameness. The headstones of ...

HUNTINGTON -- An associate producer for Dog Green Productions is hoping Huntington natives and residents can help in the final editing process for a feature-length documentary called "Sacrifice," ...

Normandy’s famous landing beaches are the main attraction for tourists visiting that historic area of France. But the cemeteries where the deceased soldiers are buried are not to be missed. ByJim ...