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.

It was a story that took months of planning and coordination across a half-dozen countries and two continents: the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that marked the turning point for the Allied ...

But on D-Day it was one of the first ships of the British and Allied invasion force that unleashed fury on the forces of Nazi Germany that lay just across the Channel. If the invasion was ...

Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, remains one of the most significant and complex military operations in history.

As a 20-year-old, Jack Warner was tasked with flying over Normandy on D-Day to attack German gun emplacements ahead of the ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

The modern-day aerial footage is accompanied by interviews with World War II veterans, mixed with archival footage of the June 6, 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo ...

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf ...

Record of the operations of the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in the 1944 DDay invasion of France Shows paratroops gliders and troop carriers landing in France behind the German lines a day ...

Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...

On 5 June 1944, aged 21, he took part in his first combat mission, dropping elite paratroopers into German-occupied France to secure landing areas ahead of the main D-Day invasion. Col Hamilton ...