June 6 marks the anniversary of the Allies’ land and sea invasion of northern France in 1944, beginning the race for Paris.

The first significant offensive action taken by the U.S. military in World War II occurred in North ... Africa for their next assignment. The U.S. military top brass wanted to launch the invasion ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Churchill instead argued for an invasion of North Africa in 1942, an idea with which Roosevelt agreed. This provided the U.S. forces with a direct opportunity to fight the Germans and Italians ...

More than half were North African and African native soldiers ... later famous as one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II and as a movie actor. There are many other, much ...

At the start of World War II, a diverse North African Jewish population of roughly ... after Germany’s successful invasion of France. It was ruled by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, a French ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz noted the June 6 D-Day anniversary while pressing Trump to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

“Most of North Africa was under colonial rule during World War II, with some countries even ... assisted the American forces during the Allied invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch.” ...

With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces began turning the tide in World War II. On this 80th ... of their panzer divisions north and east of the Seine River ...

Israeli society became aware of the events of World War II in North Africa far too late. North African Jews themselves only gradually came to realize that their wartime experiences bore ...

As General Eisenhower’s diplomatic troubleshooter before and during the World War II North Africa invasion, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Robert Daniel Murphy worked with the French underground ...