Further along the Normandy coast Peter Lovett landed ... Operation Overlord saw some 156,000 Allied troops landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944. It is thought as many as 4,400 were killed in ...

4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... but bad weather pushed the landing back to the morning of Tuesday 6 June, 1944. It turned out this change of plan worked in the Allies’ favour ...

Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis. Here’s a look back at one of the most courageous days in history.

France's Ministry of Culture on Monday filed an application to have the beaches in Normandy that were the site of the D-Day ...

Normandy 1944 Map is centered on the World War II battlefield of Normandy, France and is specifically created to depict the period after the D-Day landings and the establishment of several allied ...

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 ...

1944, thousands of Allied servicemen landed on the shores of northern France, tasked with liberating western Europe from Nazi tyranny. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing ...

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion ... In blustery winds in the early hours of June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied paratroopers jumped behind Germany's coastal defenses.

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.