The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.

In the chaos of D-Day, the Battle of Carentan played a crucial role in securing a continuous front for the Allies. This video ...

D-Day Hero Posted: February 3, 2025 | Last updated: February 3, 2025 Storming the D-Day beach, Hollis didn’t take cover. Instead, in a moment of extreme courage, he stood up and ran zigzagging ...

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

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Dennis Zotigh Command Sergeant Major Julia Kelly (U.S. Army retired), one of 80 Native American delegates to the 75th anniversary observance of D-Day, stands on Omaha Beach. Kelly holds an eagle ...

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. Start Slideshow Troops go ashore during training exercises for the ...

To plan for the operation the BBC ran a competition for French beach holiday photographs. It was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches. D-day is simply a standard armed ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

D-Day was his first time at sea. In an interview for the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, Mr Wake described getting tanks on to the beach. "We saw the lads that were there, we saw them ...

Albert Keir was part of the D-Day naval crew which carried American troops to Utah Beach in France on 6 June 1944. Derbyshire county councillors on Wednesday bestowed the civic honour on the 99 ...