John Leicester

The 80th anniversary this week of the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion on D-Day that punched through Hitler’s western defenses and helped precipitate Nazi Germany’s surrender 11 months later brings...

Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves into Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought...