IT’S TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY SPONSORED BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM.IN APRIL OF 1942, THE PLANNING OF OPERATION BOLERO BEGAN AS PART OF THE PREPARATION FOR OPERATION OVERLORD, WHICH ...

On D-Day Nurse Joyce Dandridge from Wooburn was waiting anxiously in a train in a railway siding somewhere on the south coast. It was no ordinary train, having been converted to an ambulance train.

But the key part of winning WW II was the invasion of France, hence the planning of the greatest sea and air invasion in history: Operation Overlord. Written and Hosted by Colin D. Heaton.

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Hemingway went on to serve as an air controller during the 1944 D-Day landings and Operation Overlord, directing RAF fighter traffic over the Normandy beaches throughout the Allied invasion.

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...