Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis.
Here’s What You Need To Remember: The crucial aspect of D-Day was the surprise factor: even after the landings, the Nazis believed the main invasion would occur at Calais instead of ...
A MUCH-loved veteran of the Normandy landings from East Lancashire has died at the age of 99. Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, ...
The Whale and The Mummy star Fraser — who is virtually the same age as Eisenhower was at the time of the Normandy landings — ...
The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne landings in continental Europe by Allied forces. In the BBC’s new programme D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, remastered ...
Experts told The Telegraph that the barges, which seemingly draw inspiration from the “Mulberry Harbours” built for the Normandy landings in 1944, could prove critical in an amphibious ...
Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...
For the first time, the identity of the most secret decoy in the plot to fool Hitler over the Normandy landings of 1944 is revealed: King George VI.
When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...
Lt Richard Willis, from Wellington in Somerset, was 20 years old when he served as second in command on a landing craft at Utah Beach, transporting US tanks and soldiers to Normandy for Operation ...