Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

Delivering an invasion force of the scale of D-Day ... the Normandy coast. Code-named Mulberry, each harbour was formed using sunken break-waters made from hollow concrete blocks and old ship ...

During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain during WWII with the 7th Naval Beach Battalion during the D-Day ... to ships taking part in the invasion.

The invasion was supported by a huge armada of ships — perhaps the ... ship from San Francisco back to Normandy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D-Day. “You couldn’t do a job like ...

It was H-Hour, on D-Day. Nowadays, this vast ship, HMS Belfast ... all agreed this was the main invasion, the Panzer reserves might have been ordered to Normandy much earlier on D-Day, and ...

Taipei considers recruiting foreign fighters while Beijing’s new sea vessels draw inspiration from the 1944 Normandy landings ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy ... the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion’s 80th anniversary.

Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide ... information about the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy Tourism website.

About 11,000 Allied aircraft, 7,000 ships and boats ... or missing during the D-Day invasion alone. About 22,000 German soldiers are among the many buried around Normandy. The number of survivors ...

China is reportedly building a fleet of landing ships that could be used in an invasion of Taiwan. The barges have been likened to "Mulberry harbours" that were built for the Normandy landings in ...

Narrated by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, the documentary D-DAY: OVER NORMANDY focuses on the ... 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo animations.

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...