Harriet's findings center on the events of 25 November 1120, when the White Ship struck a rock near Barfleur, Normandy, drowning nearly all aboard, including King Henry I's heir, William Adelin ...
Traveling by ship across the English Channel the night of June 12, 1944, my father was below deck with the vehicle he would soon drive ashore at Utah Beach to face combat in World War II at last ...
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 ...
Commander Georgios Panagiotopoulos, from Greece, was captain of HS (Hellenic Ship) Tompazis, one the two corvettes of the Hellenic Navy which participated in the Normandy Landings. He was awarded ...
In 1944, Comanche Code Talkers exchanged radio messages detailing the exact landing locations for each group of Allied Forces as their ships reached the beaches of Normandy. The delegates will ...
Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...
The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... may have spotted the mass build-up of weapons, troops and ships along the south coast, and been better prepared.” But if the Allied army had ...
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy ... than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and ...