Historian reveals emotional impact of White Ship disaster near Normandy in 1120
Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published in ...
navalnews4d
French Navy Boosts ‘First Rank’ Surface Ship Availability and Sea Days
The French Navy has built the availability of its ‘first rank’ destroyer and frigate force up to 80% according to navy Chief ...
Berkshire Eagle11d
'I was talking to history.' World War II veteran and Berkshire Place resident recalls what is was like to storm the beaches of Normandy
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...
Fox News2y
World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
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 ...
Hosted on MSN8mon
A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach
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 ...