Dwight D. Eisenhower checked with his meteorologist and decided to give the order to launch the assault. The invasion ...

Narrated by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, the documentary D-DAY: OVER NORMANDY focuses ... 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo animations.

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy ... the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion’s 80th anniversary.

Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

He knew that he was sending his soldiers off to France with the best maps ... the invasion the Allies dropped twice as many bombs on the Pas de Calais as they did on Normandy. Even on D-Day ...

Normandy 1944 Map is centered on the World War II battlefield of Normandy, France and is specifically created to depict the period after the D-Day landings and the establishment of several allied ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most ...