Had the Red Army not broken the back of the Wehrmacht in 1942–1943, more than likely the American-led landings in Normandy in June 1944 would have turned into a tragic bloodbath. ..…

A major contribution of resisters was sabotaging roads and railroads so successfully during the Normandy landings that German reinforcements were delayed for days and sometimes weeks. ..…

Pete Souza/White House Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin at a commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of D-Day, Normandy, France, June 2014 Many members of Congress and countless commentators have insisted, as senators did in the Cotton letter, that an agreement with Iran or on climate change would..…

For example, Air Force entered World War II believing Germany could be defeated via bombardment alone, and throughout the war opposed the diversion of bomber forces to such tasks as supporting Normandy invasion. ..…

Frenchmen - Mourad Benchellali, Brahim Yadel, Imad Kanouni and Nizar Sassi - were flown to military base Normandy in French military plane and turned over for questioning to France's counterintelligence agency, Directorate for Territorial Surveillance. ..…

In mid-July (after the Allied landings in Normandy), the authorities had to acknowledge that they lacked the evidence to bring either man to trial. ..…

The Normandy American Cemetery is the burial place of thousands of American soldiers. ..…