Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...

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

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 ...

Richard Aldred, 99, served as a tank driver and landed on Gold Beach in Normandy the day after D-Day. His tank was blown up and he took cover under it on the side of the road alongside his ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ceremony will honor the estimated 160,000 American, British and Canadian troops who landed at the beach on D-Day. The battles on D-Day of June 6, 1944, and in the weeks that followed ...