D-Day--June 6, 1944

World Rising From Ruins: D-Day Landscapes, Then and Now The scale of destruction unleashed in Normandy on and after D-Day beggars the imagination. On the 70th anniversary of Operation Overlord, TIME commemorates that epic invasion through a series of

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.

World At D-Day Commemoration, Few Mourn the War's Losers It may surprise the many Americans who have arrived in Normandy in France this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, but the largest burial place here is not, in fact, the

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, broadcasting a speech over the radio from the White House.

U.S.FDR's D-Day Prayer One of his sons once referred to Franklin Roosevelt as a “frustrated clergyman.” The president, an Episcopalian, loved liturgy and found the cadences of the Book of Common Prayer and of

Washington Conference: Churchill And Roosevelt

World The Winding Road to D-Day It was, Winston Churchill noted at the time, “a strange Christmas Eve.” Only weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war on the U.S.,

World D-Day Anniversary Marks Farewell For 'Greatest Generation'Correction appended: June 4. It has been a long goodbye. And this week, the world might be saying its last big farewell to what’s been dubbed “the greatest generation,” those who

French performers in show for U.S. troops after D-Day, Normandy, 1944.

World Photos From the First Show for US Troops After D-Day In July 1944, photographer Ralph Morse was on hand for what he called, in typed notes from the scene, the "first organized entertainment" for troops after D-Day

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach.

LightBox Robert Capa's Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf This video shows how photojournalist Robert Capa's negatives were almost lost

World Charting Audacity: D-Day Maps From TIME Magazine D-Day maps conjure an era when huge forces were on the move, or were stuck in brutal stalemate, all over the globe

United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, March 1945.

World The War After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Berlin, Nagasaki: places where the war did not stop when Operation Overlord ended

U.S. troops disembark from landing crafts during D-Day June 6, 1944 after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches.

World The Longest Day This essay was first published in LIFE D-Day: Remembering the Battle that Won the War–70 Years Later. On June 6, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt went to bed just after midnight. The D-Day invasion

LightBox Robert Capa's Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf This video shows how photojournalist Robert Capa's negatives were almost lost

World Charting Audacity: D-Day Maps From TIME Magazine D-Day maps conjure an era when huge forces were on the move, or were stuck in brutal stalemate, all over the globe

World The War After D-Day: Deeper Into Hell Photos from Saipan, Bastogne, Berlin, Nagasaki: places where the war did not stop when Operation Overlord ended

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