The preparations even included inflatable tanks and landing craft. But about a month before D-Day, one of Rommel’s commanders did propose that some armoured divisions and anti-aircraft divisions ...

Army veterans and military vehicle enthusiasts from Weymouth are to set off on a journey around Europe to mark anniversary of D-Day and VE Day.

On 6 June 1944 the Allies launched the biggest air and seaborne invasion in history, codenamed Operation Neptune (part of the larger Operation Overlord) and commonly referred to as D-Day.

"From swimming its Sherman Tanks onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day through France, Belgium and The Netherlands to their eventual location in northern Germany when peace was declared on VE Day ...