With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, regional authorities in Normandy, France, are pulling out all the stops to make this year’s program a memorable one.

Clarence Sasser, an Army medic in Vietnam who was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving injured soldiers despite his own injuries from gunfire, dies at 76.

World War II aircraft that moved troops and cargo across the North Atlantic to Europe are being retooled, fueled and readied to make the same journey the aircraft did 80 years ago for a commemorative flight to pay tribute to the D-Day invasion.

The Medics went on the beach with the assault battalions and stayed there with them. A bunch of kids from West Virginia and Ohio crawled through tide-washed cuts in the sand and among those grotesque rows of dead to do their jobs.

As the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches, a World War II Foundation podcast is taking a look at the intersection of history and film.

Stars and Stripes is sharing a series of interviews conducted by the World War II Foundation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. 

Amfreville, Normandy, France, June 5, 1994: Parachutes glide toward earth as some 550 paratroopers reenact the 101st Airborne Division D-Day jump.

No rations, ammunition ran low, but they fought on — U.S. Force battled 22 hours past schedule until linkup.

Five years ago, Onofrio “No-No” Zicari visited the spot where he spent the worst hours of his life. Now, at 101, he’s ready to go back for the 80th anniversary of the perilous fight. “I thought maybe it would be the best thing for me to do,” Zicari said. “The good Lord is keeping me alive for a reason.”

Early on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers descended on South Vietnam on a search-and-destroy mission that within a few hours left hundreds of infants, children and other civilians dead. A historian contends that the massacre would have likely never happened if not for the ambitious officer who planned the mission and longed for a battalion command.