The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.

Stagg predicted that 5 June would be too stormy for a landing, but a break in the weather would make the invasion possible the next day. At midday on 6 June, several hours into D-Day, Prime ...

“He’s a D-Day veteran. He was in it from the beginning of the D-Day landing in 1944 until the end of the war when Germany surrendered.” Grabski noted Deken’s military occupational ...