More than 60,000 civilian deaths a darker and largely ignored side of D-Day campaign

French noncombatants were killed in connection with a massive bombing campaign by the Allies, which began three months before D-Day to isolate the battlefield ahead of the June 6 ground invasion.

Bedford remembers: Virginia town still mourns 20 men lost during invasion

Bedford, Virginia, then a close-knit community of fewer than 4,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley, was home to Company A of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. Of the 37 men called to fight, 20 died - all but one from the same company that saw significant action on D-Day.

From Salinger to Scotty: Honoring the famous veterans of D-Day

Most of the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who fought on D-Day are remembered for their heroism but not their names. Here are a few exceptions, including some who won fame for achievements after the war.

D-Day at the movies: rousing, gruesome, solemn and sometimes tragicomic

This is the day that changed the world; They depended on each other — and the world depended on them. So said the taglines for some of the best known movies and series that focused, at least in part, on D-Day.

D-Day's success was anything but guaranteed

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had his resignation letter ready for a reason: the success of Operation Overlord was never a given.

Shadow of D-Day stretches throughout modern history

It was a day that defined the world for generations. On June 6, 1944, about 160,000 American, British and Canadian troops stormed five beaches along a 60-mile front in Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Seventy-five years later, the world still lives in the shadow of D-Day.

D-Day at the movies: rousing, gruesome, solemn and sometimes tragicomic

This is the day that changed the world; They depended on each other — and the world depended on them; In the last great invasion of the last great war, the greatest danger for eight men was saving ... one; The real glory of war is surviving; Swinging’s their game and London will never be the same!

England’s 'biggest little port in the world,' then and now

Soft sandy beaches, fish-and-chips shops and tourist boat tours now occupy the Dorset seaside that played a key role in moving almost half a million Allied troops to France 75 years ago on D-Day.

Disgraced US Air Force officers were set up, Stasi documents show decades later

For nearly 40 years, Bill Burhans has maintained he wasn’t drunk when, as an Air Force lieutenant colonel driving U.S. military liaisons home from a holiday party in East Germany, he lost control of the car and slammed into a bus. A Stasi report has come to light that clears his name. But is it too little, too late?