codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944. 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 ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... It’s no secret that D-Day, also known by its codename Operation Overlord, was the biggest seaborne invasion in all of history.

Whether it’s referred to as Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy or simply D-Day, the landing of Allied troops on the European continent began the liberation of France and paved the way ...

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 Overlord. On the 80th anniversary of D-Day ...

Seventy-one years ago, the British, Canadians, and Americans landed on the Normandy beaches to open a second ground front against Nazi Germany. Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of ...

Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, from Padiham, faced the horrors of D-Day as a 17-year-old, landing on Sword Beach and battling his way to Caen in his Churchill tank. He would later recall how troops were ...

Involving some of the highest levels of deception and most ambitious covert military planning the world has ever seen, ...

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began ... who led the planning for Operation Overlord. The commemoration kicked off with a flypast by Dakota ...