On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. When the Allies needed to pick an appropriate landing site ...

Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle ... Poole was the third largest embarkation point for the Normandy landings, with thousands of troops and more than 300 vessels setting sail from ...

United States president Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will attend ceremonies to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings ... in the White House. Operation Overlord was launched ...

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“According to my dad, who died in 2013, the artist came to North Killingholme and presented the original painting to the crew ...

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

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, ...

IT’S TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY SPONSORED BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM.IN APRIL OF 1942, THE PLANNING OF OPERATION BOLERO BEGAN AS PART OF THE PREPARATION FOR OPERATION OVERLORD, WHICH ...

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 ...

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

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers ... the largest amphibious and airborne military operation of all time. So let’s spend the weekend ...