Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkirk would have been not manpower and morale, but timing. Thankfully, this didn’t happen.

As World War Two veteran Ted Owens, 94, from Pembroke Dock, returns to France to commemorate 75 years since the Normandy landings, here he recalls how he thought D-Day was a training exercise ...

China is reportedly constructing “D-Day style” barges which could be used in an invasion of Taiwan. At least three of the new craft have been observed at Guangzhou Shipyard in southern China, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne landings in continental Europe by Allied forces. In the BBC’s new programme D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, remastered ...

Normandy landings begin as American soldiers leave a barge under fire in World War II, June 6, 1944.

There are no showtimes for this date. 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 ...

China is reportedly building a fleet of landing ships that could be used in an invasion of Taiwan. The barges have been likened to "Mulberry harbours" that were built for the Normandy landings in ...