A World War II soldier who was killed in the mountains of France during a German offensive in 1944 has been identified, and his remains will be reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ...
France suffered a notoriously quick defeat at the hands of its German neighbor in World War II. The country capitulated just six weeks after Hitler's land invasion began on May 10, 1940.
Britain and France are now at war with Germany but for eight months ... and the most destructive war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion, launched?