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.

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 ...

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

The Allied invasion of the Nazi-occupied French coast of Normandy on D-Day was one of the most complex military operations ...

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. Start Slideshow Troops go ashore during training exercises for the ...

Pierce Brosnan stars as 93-year-old Artie Crawford, a pensioner in Northern Ireland who requests to travel to Normandy for ...

The Germans took the bait so much that even after D-Day they held many of their best troops in the Calais area expecting a second invasion. On D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US ...

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 an intelligence officer, Capt Peter Barlow was involved in the planning of the D-Day invasion, which took place 80 years ago on 6 June. His son Robin Barlow, from Devon, has kept the maps ...

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:01 a.m. | Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:01 a.m. Warren Goss watched as soldiers in front of him dropped — struck down by enemy fire — after the ramp ...