Paratroop landings were also planned for Rouen (3) and Havre and Honfleur (4). 2. Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches ...

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 ...

The sandwich dial, which has cutout numerals to show the sand beneath it, includes a landing map of the different Normandy beaches where Allied troops landed on D-Day. On the back of the polished ...

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump ... For Steve the memories of landing here remain vivid. "The weather was not good.

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion in history, a feat months in the planning and kept secret from Nazi Germany despite a huge trans-Atlantic mobilization of industry and manpower.

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...