The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy on the 6th June 1944, the Allies fought a bitter 77 day battle ...

This five-mile stretch of of the Normandy ... of trenches and bunkers to be explored, over 2km in total, and with it’s burial and subsequent rediscovery, the battery is almost as it was over 70 years ...

The Guillaume de Normandie, Brittany Ferries’ second hybrid-LNG vessel, has been christened in Ouistreham, Normandy. At a ceremony held on Friday (28 March), the vessel, which combines LNG and battery ...

She was 17 and working in a top secret underground bunker passing coded messages from ... blood-curdling sound from across the water in Normandy. Marie, 98, said: “In my head I was in the ...

Norway's proximity to the USSR during the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases for planes and ships. Tensions with Russia have brought the bunkers ...

Newsreel footage of paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division boarding planes for the Normandy invasion. The Huffington Post writes that " the new military town in Mihail ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the ...

World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary o ...

DOYLESTOWN — Lauren Miller never met the man buried in Plot I, Row 19, Grave 12, of the American military cemetery in Normandy. She knows he left Elizabethtown College after a single semester ...