Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches. It was not a nice thing - not a nice thing at all. It was carnage.' ...

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 ...

RAF bombers, beach assaults and balls of yarn have come together for a "bonkers" D-Day exhibition dreamt up by a woman born in Northern Ireland and brought to painstaking life by an army of knitters ...

was astonished to discover that the UK – alone among the principal Allied nations of WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing beaches. This is Nicholas's story ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

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.

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

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.