The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...
Our live coverage of the 80th anniversary of D-Day has ended. Read more about D-Day here or scroll through the posts on today’s events below. French President Emmanuel Macron closed the international ...
D-Day, the invasion of German-held western Europe by the Allies – primarily the U.S., Great Britain and Canada – happened on June 6, 1944. The plan, code named Operation Overlord, had been in the ...