After the losses of the Eastern Front, Das Reich was rebuilt in France and sent racing north after the Allied landings in ...

Das Reich entered the Normandy campaign fragmented and under constant attack from the air, then fought through the hedgerows ...

Thousands of American and British paratroopers were dropped behind German lines in one of the largest airborne operations in history to kick off the Normandy invasion These soldiers were dropped into ...

As we approach the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II — on August 15, 1945, with Japan’s unconditional surrender following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — those who fought in ...

Day is engrained in Normandy. The landscape itself remembers. It is hilly and unpredictably scarred by the constant bombing.

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It was 1 o'clock in the morning and I was 500 ft over Normandy waiting to jump from a Stirling bomber. I was one of the vast numbers of airborne forces involved in Operation Overlord. During WW2 all ...

You’ve seen the black-and-white D-Day photographs taken under fire on the Normandy beaches during Operation Overlord, the pivotal World War II invasion that led to the defeat of Germany in 1945.

THE role played by the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the D-Day Landings comes under the spotlight of a new exhibition which has opened at the Fusilier Museum Warwick. The ‘Ashore We Stumbled – The ...

Two black Citroen saloon cars – typical Gestapo vehicles – crawled through the narrow Brittany lanes, the drivers clearly lost. Moment later their occupants – all Gestapo agents – were dead or running ...

The shadow of the cigar and the bulldog profile of the Longest Day: the book Churchill’s D-Day, by retired British general Lord Richard Dannatt and his compatriot, the expert archivist Allen Packwood, ...