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.

Off Normandy’s coast his landing ship tank ... months later. In the days after landing on Utah Beach, he treated US soldiers and German prisoners. Some Americans who had survived the first ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The crucial aspect of D-Day was the surprise factor: even after the landings, the Nazis believed the main invasion would occur at Calais instead of ...

Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, from Padiham, faced the horrors of D-Day as a 17-year-old, landing on Sword Beach and battling his way to Caen in his Churchill tank. He would later recall how troops were ...

videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed before the beach was secured.

Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne ... who landed at Juno beach with the Royal Naval Commandos. After he was discharged, he worked as a fisherman ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects ... WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing beaches. This is Nicholas's story, as recounted in Radio 4's ...

“The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World ... vehicles to and from specialist beach landing craft – or a barge bridgehead.

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...