on 6 June 1944. Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial ...

On 6 June 1944 the Allies launched the biggest air and seaborne invasion in history, codenamed Operation Neptune (part of the larger Operation Overlord) and commonly referred to as D-Day.

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

More than 800 tank landing craft took part in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944 The last surviving D-Day tank landing craft will touch down on Southsea Beach to mark the 75th ...