And he was in a military plane overhead as Allied forces stormed the beach at Normandy,France.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Sergeant Joe Beyrle parachuted into Normandy during the allied D-Day invasion of Europe on June 6,1944.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"I came out a 40-year-old man." The story of the soldiers,sailors and airmen who landed in Normandy is told in a documentary by two British filmmakers.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Off the Normandy coast,Earl W.Norwood was a 17-year-old sailor who operated a landing craft between the ships and Omaha Beach, one of the beaches where the Americans landed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

He also hosts the video tour of historic D-Day sites in the documentary The Americans on D-Day, which he made with British producer and fellow Normandy resident Richard Lanni.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

He enrolled in a bread-making seminar in Paris, and spent a few days at an abbey in Normandy,France, where he taught the monks how to make the traditional abbey bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The bloody assault on the beaches of Normandy would change the course of the war, allowing the Allies to liberate occupied France and advance into Germany, as Soviet troops advanced against the Germans from the East.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

Mr.Obama's June 4 speech in the Egyptian capital will take place as part of a trip that will include visits to Germany and France to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09