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 ...

Use the interactive map to find vacation rentals and hotels ... of course with the biggest area dedicated to World War II and the Normandy landings. All displays have captions in French, English ...

Recently crowned the UK's best beach by Tripadvisor, Weymouth beach is a hit among holidaygoers. Nestled along the ...

to work out what the weather conditions would be like in Normandy. Stagg predicted that 5 June would be too stormy for a landing, but a break in the weather would make the invasion possible the ...

The first is a flat and fast stage around Caen in Normandy in week one, while the second is a short mountain time trial on the Col de Peyresourde to the Peyragudes ski station landing strip.

As dawn broke the largest armada in history stood waiting off the Normandy coast ... feared that the heavy guns could annihilate American landing craft on route to the beaches, they had to ...

A South Tyneside man has shared the story of how he got his name - and how it originated on the beaches of Normandy. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Shields Gazette, you can get ...

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

Paddy the Pigeon, who was hatched in Co Antrim, was the fastest of the flock when he was released on June 6, 1944, to deliver the news of the successful D-Day landings back to England. Paddy ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...