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

Mulberry A was constructed for the Americans off Normandy’s Omaha ... “Deep-draught ships could lie at anchor and discharge, and all types of landing craft could ply freely to and from 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...