Usually when we think of World War 2, images of Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy during the invasion of Europe ...

D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return to Normandy on 80th anniversary of invasion. It would be more than four years ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy on the 6th June 1944, the Allies fought a bitter 77 day battle ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy ... 150 World War II veterans returning there for commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion ...

He has written 15 books, mostly about World War II, including two books about D-Day and the battle of Normandy, called "The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion ...

Seventy-one years ago, the British, Canadians, and Americans landed on the Normandy beaches to open a second ground front against Nazi Germany. Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of ...

The Musée du Débarquement, located on the seafront where one of the most incredible achievements of WWII happened ... and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects ... that the UK – alone among the principal Allied nations of WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned ... Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather ...