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.

The invasion of Normandy wasn't accomplished strictly through American forces. Meet the 3rd Canadian infantry division that stormed Juno Beach. Their mission was to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...

Mr Churm, from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, was a medic on landing craft on D-Day, moving tanks from Newhaven in Sussex to Sword Beach, one of the five landing areas for the Allied ...

Winning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings. videoWinning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings In this short film for secondary schools veterans recall what it was like to be part of the D-Day landings ...

A D-Day hero today paid his respects ... invasion force to clear the sea off 'bloody' Omaha Beach. He then had to go aboard a broken down landing craft and was trying to fix it when it took ...

This Thursday, June 6, the Falkland Islands will also be joining the D-Day 80th Anniversary of the beach landings in Normandy with the lighting of a beacon at 5:15 PM, under the motto of ...

The Prince of Wales will attend the international commemorative ceremony at Omaha Beach ... of Gloucester will attend ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music ...

Plans are under way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in a town where thousands ... troops took part in a dress rehearsal for the beach landings. Several tanks sank when they were ...

The D-Day invasion ... eventuality. A landing craft disembarks troops of Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto the ... [+] Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning ...