June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet ... Audiences of all ages will discover from a new perspective how this landing changed the world. Exploring ...

Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis.

The first troops to land were 23,000 paratroopers followed by the amphibious landings ... the Normandy campaign resulted in ...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, addressing Allied troops before the Normandy landing Eighty Native American delegates have traveled to France to commemorate the 75th ...

thousands of Allied servicemen landed on the shores of northern France, tasked with liberating western Europe from Nazi tyranny. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing ...

When Allied forces landed on the Italian coast at Anzio 81 years ago, they began a four-month battle that left some 7,000 of ...

The creator of the project Tansy Forster was born in Magherafelt and now lives in Normandy, France. "It started off as a ...

An engineering feat, the harbors were used to unload troops, vehicles and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June ... its creation and the D-Day landings. Recent visitors praised ...

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 ...

Three weeks after the June 6 landings, nearly a million Allied soldiers were ashore ... earlier during the Sicily campaign — came to Normandy late. His superb Third Army was relegated to ...

The possibility of placing peacekeepers on Ukraine will be discussed at an informal meeting on February 3 by British Prime ...

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to ... 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 ...