Top-secret World War II maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 (over $30,000) - after being found in a cardboard box. The collection - giving ...

Joe Vaghi's top secret map of Omaha Beach survived the stormy trip across the English Channel that day. It was stuffed in a pocket of his overalls as he hurried across the Normandy tidal flats under ...

SOUTHWICK, England (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, at Southwick House on Britain's southern coast, Allied commanders stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall map, planning the largest seaborne ...

The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...

American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of Nazi-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. (AP) OMAHA BEACH, France — The June 6, 1944, D-Day ...

Top-secret WW2 maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 – after being found in a cardboard box. The collection – giving restricted-access detail of the five ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe ...