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 ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne landings in continental Europe by Allied forces. In the BBC’s new programme D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, remastered ...

U.S. President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the defence of freedom and democracy at the 80th anniversary of the ...

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion in history, a feat months in the planning and kept secret from Nazi Germany despite a huge trans-Atlantic mobilization of industry and manpower.

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump ... For Steve the memories of landing here remain vivid. "The weather was not good.

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...