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MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his emotional press conference on Thursday.

On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 ships and 150,000 troops began landing on the ...

The D-Day operation, on this day in history, June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious invasion in military history as Allied troops assaulted the beaches of Normandy, France.

The invasion marked the turning point in the European theater, as Paris would be liberated by the end of August, 1944 and Nazi Germany would surrender less than a year later, according to History.com.

Who took part. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Of those, 73,000 were from the United States and 83,000 from Britain and Canada.

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops made at Utah Beach.

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

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented, using the largest-ever armada to punch a hole in Adolf Hitler’s defenses and change the course of World War II.

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...

So far the invasion armies have behaved well, the English with disciplined correctness, the Americans with careless camaraderie. Civil affairs officers have stopped the indiscriminate sale of brandy.