Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the ...

was astonished to discover that the UK – alone among the principal Allied nations of WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing beaches. This is Nicholas's story ...

4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

At 6:30 a.m., they were heading across the English Channel toward Omaha and Utah beaches. Related: D-Day 80th anniversary: Sgt. Walt Ehlers description of the landing at Omaha Beach Flying low ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

The war veteran died on Monday in Frimley Park Hospital, just one week short of his 99th birthday. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.

Characterizing the ships are their ramps, which are longer than football fields, enabling military vehicles to bypass heavily defended beaches ... preparations for the D-Day seaborne invasion ...

Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower ...

Day, Omaha Beach,” will be on display at the Curtis Laws Wilson Library from Friday, April 4, through Thursday, May 15. This ...