In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France ... (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S ...
France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II.