D-Day also offers a powerful counterpoint in the inability of the German military to respond effectively to the invasion despite brilliant planning for this eventuality. A landing craft disembarks ...

Even on D-Day itself, Allied planes dropped dummy paratroopers and tin foil to confuse German radar and maintain the idea the invasion would come further north. The real invasion plans were kept ...

D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return to Normandy on 80th anniversary of invasion. It would be more than four years ...

The modern-day aerial footage is accompanied by interviews with World War II veterans, mixed with archival footage of the June 6, 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo ...

On 6 June 1944 the Allies launched the biggest air and seaborne invasion in history ... Two videos about the D-Day landings from both a British and German perspective to provide an understanding ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf ...

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 ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day was one of the most complex military ... the beginning of the Allied spearhead into German-occupied Europe known as Operation Overlord.