He served alongside James Holstun and in the Army’s 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. DeFatta was a member of Company G. Operation Overlord was their ...

Winston Churchill said that Operation Overlord was 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult' ever undertaken. With nearly three million troops involved, it was an incredible feat of ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division from their paratrooper training ahead of Operation Overlord, through the Normandy landing and the invasion of Germany, and eventually ...