2. Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline that was ...

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 landings, the campaign ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy ... D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest city to the landing site not destroyed in the war.

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy ... Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day ... during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to "come in and pray for Allied victory" in the invasion of Normandy on ...

Narrated by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, the documentary D-DAY: OVER NORMANDY focuses on the personal stories of those who served in the Second World War. The modern-day aerial ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Today, Goss is one of an estimated 100 to 150 World War II veterans returning there for ...

New Orleans administrative correspondent Rebecca Santana found several American D-Day veterans by contacting groups that sponsor trips to Normandy. British soldiers march past the ruins of a church in ...

The Allied operation, also known as the Battle of Normandy, saw more than 156,000 ... not bad for a high schooler in Oregon.” Despite the D-Day maps blunder, the episode was applauded for ...