A service of celebration has been held for a D-Day veteran who died in December. William Wake, from Ulgham near Morpeth, ...

Some 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved. The landings took place along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast divided into five sectors ...

Traveling by ship across the English Channel the night of June 12, 1944, my father was below deck with the vehicle he would soon drive ashore at Utah Beach to face combat in World War II at last ...

The killings fields of Normandy will once again host an awe-inspiring tribute to those who paid the ultimate price during the ...

Harriet's findings center on the events of 25 November 1120, when the White Ship struck a rock near Barfleur, Normandy, drowning nearly all aboard, including King Henry I's heir, William Adelin ...

Those landings, still the largest seaborne invasion in history, were a major turning point in the war. The Normandy invasion was a harrowing task of unprecedented scale. To succeed, the Allies ...

The ship was carrying vehicles ... landings “served as an important predecessor to the more famous D-Day landings in Normandy that occurred only two days after the fall of Rome.

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal ... As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ...