Medeiros is now a little more than 80 years removed from landing in Normandy on D-Day ... ferocious push along the Western Front during the Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944-Jan.

The epic battle draws an estimated 5 million visitors to Normandy each year ... World War II memorabilia and stick a pin in one of the maps on the wall that track his visitors from around the ...

Let’s go inland and be killed.” The Battle of Normandy was underway, with Allied forces pushing off the beaches and fighting their way inland in the following days and weeks. By June 30 ...

Women sit among the ruins of Magny-en-Bessin (Calvados), Normandy, in October 1944, after the Battle of Normandy. AFP Eighty years ago, at the end of June 1944, the Battle of Normandy was at its ...

You won’t see everything - the Normandy landings spanned 50 miles of coast and the three-month Battle of Normandy raged for miles inland. So here are some suggestions for a two-day itinerary.

In the lengthy Battle of the Atlantic ... planes attacked by night and U.S. squadrons took over by day. But for the Normandy operation of June 1944, the massive amphibious enterprise intended ...