Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...
Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis.
The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... about the beaches was having the BBC stage a ‘French holiday photo’ competition, so the British public sent in images of pre-war France ...