Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landings along the Normandy coast during World War II. Most Americans are somewhat aware of D-Day and to some it may even stand out as a ...
June 6: D-Day. Over 160,000 Allied troops and 30,000 ... Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for ...
As D-Day approached he was ordered to water-proof ... marking the start of the Allied campaign to liberate Nazi occupied northern Europe. The BBC has been gathering first-hand accounts from ...
At the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold ... the BBC launched a bogus appeal for photographs and postcards from the coast of Europe, from Norway to the Pyrenees.
Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany.
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 ...