Image caption, CRAB TANK: The exits to the Normandy beaches were littered ... thoroughly confused as to the time and place of the actual invasion. Historian Dan Snow examines how two years of ...

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 ...

Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...

So actions four days ahead of the actual operation ... These ruses were successful enough that Hitler considered the Normandy ...