4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed to surge troops and tanks over a beach. Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in ...

A town is marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a 3D floral display, complete with landing craft and soldiers. Huntingdon Town Council has installed a three metre-long (10ft ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...

M’CHIGEENG—In the heart of M’Chigeeng First Nation, a somber cloud settled as the community came together to bid farewell to ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

History buffs and knitters will be sew impressed when this 80-metre-long D-Day diorama comes to the Forum in Norwich in February.

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans ... the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the ...

This Thursday, June 6, the Falkland Islands will also be joining the D-Day 80th Anniversary of the beach landings in Normandy with the lighting of a beacon at 5:15 PM, under the motto of ...