Two days before D-Day, his vessel left Weymouth for Normandy. He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches.

4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...

Off Normandy’s coast his landing ship tank ... months later. In the days after landing on Utah Beach, he treated US soldiers and German prisoners. Some Americans who had survived the first ...

videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed before the beach was secured.

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...

Lt Richard Willis, from Wellington in Somerset, was 20 years old when he served as second in command on a landing craft at Utah Beach, transporting US tanks and soldiers to Normandy for Operation ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump ... of the brave men who landed on Omaha Beach. Australian Jim Grievous served in New ...