The Allies used more than 5,000 ships and landing craft to land more than 150,000 troops on five beaches covering a 50-mile stretch in Normandy, France. The beaches were given the codenames Utah ...
York's last surviving D-Day veteran has been honoured with a bus named after him in his home city. On 6 June 1944, Ken Cooke ...
In this episode of Wars of the World, we are going to take a glimpse into the realm of a General on the eve of probably the single most important military operation in history. D-Day. For you are now ...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, addressing Allied troops before the Normandy landing Eighty Native American delegates have traveled to France to commemorate the 75th ...
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 ...
Ehlers, a 23-year-old Army staff sergeant, led fellow soldiers through the French town of Goville three days after landing at Normandy and knocked out two machine gun emplacements, neutralized a ...
Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...
Plans to save a reminder of the D-Day landings have been unveiled as Southampton prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day ...