A nearly year-long battle in a town in northeast France sees the Germans fail to make headway in northeast France.

In April of 1917 the Germans easily repelled an attack by over a million French soldiers.

A small French force defends against the invading Italian army; the French government retreats to Bordeaux and the Germans take Paris.

Scores of Canadian soldiers fall in a failed raid on a German port.

Experts review the positives and negatives of the Allies' invasion of northern France, a long and hard-fought conflict which turned the tide of World War II.

A massive deployment of paratroopers on June 5, 1944, provides support for the Allies in the Normandy invasion, stymieing Germany's attempt to drive them back.