In June 1944 Spitfires played an important part in the biggest seaborne invasion in history as the Allies landed in Normandy and ... out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret ...

and air forces stood poised to strike at the German beach fortifications and dense bocage of Normandy. All hopes for the liberation of France and the end of World War II would depend on the ...

A World War II bunker that had ... are still dry and intact with German instructions on the walls. The Festung Guernsey group, which restores the island's German fortifications, plan to have ...

Some of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion made a pilgrimage to the Normandy beaches ... began chipping away at German defenses. On Sunday a fleet of WWII-era C-47 transport planes ...

The costs were staggering: the Normandy campaign resulted in more than 200,000 dead, wounded, and missing on the Allied side, ...