After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of ...

Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather ... this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of Nazi Germany. Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno ...

An enormous force of infantry, armoured, airborne naval, and air forces stood poised to strike at the German beach fortifications and dense bocage of Normandy. All hopes for the liberation of ...

By night-time, around 156,000 Allied troops had arrived in Normandy, despite challenging weather and fierce German defences. At the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France ...

while thousands of ships gathered off the Normandy coast for the main seaborne attack. Though they were expecting an invasion, German military leaders believed the initial attacks were only a ...

A D-Day commando whose unit landed in Normandy without helmets has died ... “After the surrender they were sent to Minden in Germany to clear an area for the Royal Navy HQ and from there they ...

German Luftwaffe planes were occasionally allowed ... dropped twice as many bombs on the Pas de Calais as they did on Normandy. Even on D-Day itself, Allied planes dropped dummy paratroopers ...

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump made in the dead of night 80 years earlier. The French president attended the first of ...