U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

One path features examples of begrudging respect for adversaries and an adherence to so-called “rules of war;” the other displays evidence of unspeakable atrocities inflicted upon unarmed and helpless ...

Jim Grant, who helped to protect troops landing on the Normandy beaches in 1944 ... D-Day veteran and he was a Royal Marine on a landing craft operating the big guns to protect the troops that ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy ... Allies' ships and landing craft for their journey across the English Channel to fight the Germans on the beaches of France.

Transporting thousands of troops across the English Channel and landing them on beaches in ... numbers of troops directly on to the beaches. This craft was designed to skim on the sea’s surface ...

He was driving his tank towards the beach in Normandy when it was knocked ... Driver Dunn was picked up by a landing craft and taken back out to sea. His ordeal was not over.

Whistler's tank troop came under heavy enemy fire. As he dismounted his Cromwell tank, attempting to direct his men or perhaps establish radio contact with headquarters amid the chaos, a German mortar ...

On June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, graves registration personnel recovered a set of remains from Omaha Beach that they ...

Imagery from March 14 showed three of these Chinese amphibious bridging units on a beach at Nansan Island ... including Zubr-class and Type 726 air-cushioned landing craft. The presence of the new ...

As geopolitical tides shift in East Asia, a new form of strategic signaling is taking center stage — aircraft carriers. The ...

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 ...

With the 80th anniversary of D-Day one year away, we visit the sites that commemorate this world-defining event.