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 ...

A South Tyneside man has shared the story of how he got his name - and how it originated on the beaches of Normandy. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette, you can get ...

Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the challenges, the ...

TASS/. Russia has not received an invitation from France to participate in the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ...

videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed before the beach was secured.

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump made in the dead of night 80 years earlier. The French president attended the first of ...

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 ...

during the Normandy landings. The Eisenhower Library website writes that “fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the ...