France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques ...

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 ...

On 6 June, 1944, the Allies launched the D-Day landings, a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, it marked the beginning of a long campaign to ...

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

More than 4,000 Allied service personnel died on D-Day, with at least another 10,000 injured. The initial months-long ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 was the largest amphibious invasion in history. The scale of the assault was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ...

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 ...

and worked closely with U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower planning and implementing the D-Day invasion of France. In September 1944, Montgomery was made a field marshal -- the highest rank in the ...

He was one of the first ashore at Normandy, France, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Neptune - the codename for the amphibious assault and the naval component of Operation Overlord ...