The German radio said the Allied amphibious force splashed ashore 28 ... But early reports here did not specify the landing place. Advertisement Gen. Harold R.L.G. Alexander, supreme commander ...

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 ...

Bryant was one of 170,000 Allied servicemen who f6participated in Operation AVALANCHE, when forces invaded Italy in a series of amphibious landings between Sept. 9 and Sept. 18, 1943. After making ...

the Allied amphibious assault that opened the way for western Europe's liberation from Hitler's forces. An hour after sunrise, at 7.26am, a lone piper will play atop the remnants of an artificial ...

It was the single vehicle that allowed Allied amphibious landings to work, because it allows you to take men, weapons and supplies from ships offshore to a beachhead in one operation. That means ...

Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of Western Europe — proved the largest amphibious operation in ... and high morale ensured the successful landing of 160,000 troops on the first ...

As the Allied campaign pushed across northern ... spent weeks practicing amphibious landings along the English coastline, and scaled the towering seaside cliffs near Swanage more times than ...

A HISTORIAN is hoping to find the family of a Wirral man who died in World War Two so he can help discover the name of unknown soldier's grave.