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 ...

The Panzer IV was one of Germany’s most widely used tanks during the Normandy campaign. This video takes you to the historic sites where Panzer IVs fought, compares wartime images to modern landscapes ...

Normandy is home to an incredible collection of WWII military vehicles—surviving originals, restored icons, and battlefield relics. This video explores tanks, trucks, halftracks, armored cars, and ...

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 ...

The state of Britain’s military is leaving the UK “on a knife edge” facing the growing prospect of war, a D-Day veteran has warned on the 80th anniversary of the landings marking the start of Europe’s ...

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, ...