Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

Paratroop landings were also planned for Rouen (3) and Havre and Honfleur (4). 2. Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline ...

Normandy 1944 Map is centered on the World War II battlefield of Normandy, France and is specifically created to depict the period after the D-Day landings and the establishment of several allied ...

La douleur m’a brisée, la fraternité m’a relevée, de ma blessure a jailli un fleuve de liberté” “Pain broke me, brotherhood uplifted me, from my wounds sprang a river of liberty” -Paul Doret When we ...

When the Allies needed to pick an appropriate landing site, they didn’t have Google Maps and Street View available ... The landings in Normandy comprised nearly 50 miles of coastline, including ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip ... Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest city to the landing site not destroyed ...