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 ...

As time passes fewer from the Greatest Generation are around to share their stories. Among veterans, Wayzata resident Philip Harder, 88, belongs to an even more select group – those who were ...

A veteran tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Hayward went from basic training at Bovington Camp in Dorset to landing in ...

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 ...

A D-Day hero today paid his respects ... invasion force to clear the sea off 'bloody' Omaha Beach. He then had to go aboard a broken down landing craft and was trying to fix it when it took ...

Mr Churm, from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, was a medic on landing craft on D-Day, moving tanks from Newhaven in Sussex to Sword Beach, one of the five landing areas for the Allied ...

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 ...