Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany.

But on D-Day it was one of the first ships of the British and Allied invasion force that unleashed fury on the forces of Nazi Germany that lay just across the Channel. If the invasion was ...

As an intelligence officer, Capt Peter Barlow was involved in the planning of the D-Day invasion, which took place 80 years ago on 6 June. His son Robin Barlow, from Devon, has kept the maps ...

It was a story that took months of planning and coordination across a half-dozen countries and two continents: the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that marked the turning point for the Allied ...

The Germans took the bait so much that even after D-Day they held many of their best troops in the Calais area expecting a second invasion. On D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944, remains one of the most significant and complex military operations in history.

The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day was one of the most complex military operations ever undertaken, but amid the intense preparation and planning for history's largest combined land ...

The modern-day aerial footage is accompanied by interviews with World War II veterans, mixed with archival footage of the June 6, 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf ...

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With ...

Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...