Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the ...

The original code name was "Oregon," but the Army personnel started calling the beach "Utah." Zoom in: Utah was the westernmost of the five D-Day landing sites. Troops there were tasked with ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

A D-Day hero who survived the Normandy landings and being shot three times ... At just 20, he landed under fire at Gold Beach and helped liberate Europe. He lived to 101, bearing witness to ...

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 ...

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

The company disembarked from their landing craft at ... On June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, graves registration personnel recovered a set of remains from Omaha Beach that they were unable ...