Some of the most important D-Day footage was nearly lost to history, stored in the archives and forgotten for decades. This ...
The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...
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Why D-Day almost failed: The real risks of June 6, 1944

Before success came fear. This video uncovers why Allied leaders doubted the Normandy invasion would work — from ...
We leave these things at the moment, of course we were there. I was there. And we saw the sky filled with this. Me falling. Yes, the people of Normandy remember it well. This is only *** reenactment ...
Five years into World War II, the Allies were squeezing the Nazis from two sides. In Western Europe, Allied forces had managed to slow Adolf Hitler's ruthless expansion across the continent. Meanwhile ...
(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...
Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime.Along the ...
Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...
MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum will open a new exhibit about the pivotal battle that turned the course of the war ...