Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis.

Soar above the iconic beaches of Normandy with this drone footage, revealing the historic sites where the D-Day landings shaped the course of World War II. Trudeau’s top lieutenant resigns over ...

A new memorial statue in Normandy shows three British soldiers fighting their way up the beach. He was stretchered onto a landing craft, before being moved to a Canadian hospital ship, then ...

The Mansfield-born veteran still remembers being fired at by German soldiers as they landed on the beach in Normandy, France. “You had to try and get up onto the road but the Germans were firing ...

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion ... Thousands were killed on both sides on the beaches, codenamed Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha by the Allies. Lines of white marble ...

the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel — designed and built by Higgins' firm were unloading wave after wave of American GIs on Normandy's Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day ...

videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed before the beach was secured.

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects ... WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing beaches. This is Nicholas's story, as recounted in Radio 4's ...

Normandy '44 Gold Normandy '44 is an operational level simulation of the D-Day landings and subsequent battles to move inland fighting your way off the beaches. This is a battle largely of ...