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 ...

But on D-Day it was one of the first ships of the British and Allied invasion force that unleashed fury on the forces of Nazi Germany that lay just across the Channel. If the invasion was ...

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 ...

It was a story that took months of planning and coordination across a half-dozen countries and two continents: the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that marked the turning point for the Allied ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...