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 ...

However, while it was in Weymouth, Dorset, where more than 100,000 men were staged ahead of the Normandy invasion ... Despite the D-Day maps blunder, the episode was applauded for deciding ...

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 ...

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 ...

He knew that he was sending his soldiers off to France with the best maps available ... Delivering an invasion force of the scale of D-Day would require a huge harbour. Capturing one would ...

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 ...

And it bears something else: invasion stripes—the black and white alternating bands on its wings and fuselage—applied for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. It may be the only remaining ...

World War II veterans — either involved in the months-long campaign or the actual D-Day invasion — will be there, thanks to several nonprofit groups that are assisting with travel to France.

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...