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 ...
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 ...
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.
Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...
The last surviving pilot to have taken part in a mission that began the allied invasion of Europe during World War Two has ...
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 ...
I'm no hero. I wish that word had never been put in the dictionary," said William Phelps, a 101st Airborne Division artilleryman.