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 ...

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 ...

D-Day Then & Now: The 101st Airborne’s Brave Fight in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont 🪂⚔️ June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of France, and the 101st Airborne Division was at the ...

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 ...

Dad's Secret War: France 1944 is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

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 ...