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 ...

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.

Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the ...

Winning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings. videoWinning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings In this short film for secondary schools veterans recall what it was like to be part of the D-Day landings ...

Eighty years on from World War II and the heroic D-Day Normandy landings, the story of the filmmakers who immortalised the terrible events of that fateful summer with memorable photos and film ...

To mark D-Day's 75th anniversary, Guy Martin restores a Dakota plane, undergoes brutal training with the Red Devils parachute display team, and parachutes into the Normandy countryside ...

Solemn ceremonies commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy in June 1944 will be held in Normandy and Brittany on June 6-8. The largest one will be held on Omaha Beach on June 6 and will be ...