A look back at D|Day
They were there on D-Day, on the beaches and in the skies ... - KTOO
This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Frank Walk was in a hurry. The U.S. ...
D-Day, A Year Too Late? | Naval History Magazine
D-Day, A Year Too Late? ... In the face of British opposition, a U.S. bid for the Allies to launch an invasion across the English Channel in 1943 failed. But ...
Remembering D-Day: Key facts, figures about epochal World War II ...
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity.
History As It Happens: D-Day Remembered - Washington Times
... of Normandy, which took place 80 years ago. History As It Happens takes its annual look back that this brutal day that became a turning point in WWII.
The D-Day Invasion: Turning the Tide of World War II
After the United States entered World War II, it was only a matter of time that the Allies would invade Europe to defeat Nazi Germany. · Those Who Fight · Blue ...
D-Day - June 6, 1944: On the Beach - EyeWitness to History
The Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe" began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944 when American and British paratroops dropped behind the ...
The D-Day landings, in pictures | CNN
US troops huddle behind the protective front of their landing craft as it nears a beachhead in France.
D-Day veterans return to Normandy for 80th anniversary ... - YouTube
Eighty years ago, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Remembering D-Day: a hard-fought turning point during World War II
D-Day, the largest land, sea and water military operation in history, represented a moment when the world froze in anticipation of what would ...
Looking Back At D-Day, 74 Years Later | Here & Now - WBUR
Seventy-four years ago today, June 6, 1944, the allies stormed ashore in France to drive the Germans out. Less than a year later, ...
80 years later, D-Day vet looks back: 'We were the first on the line'
Marvin E. Gilmore, Jr. and his fellow soldiers in an all-Black anti-aircraft artillery battalion had one thing on their mind: survival.
D-Day: What happened during the Normandy landings of 1944? - BBC
Although they had got a foothold in France by the end of D-Day, allied forces were for a while at risk of being pushed back into the sea.
D-Day Now And Then: 75 Years Later, A Look At The Normandy ...
June 6th marks 75 years since the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, and the turning point of WWII. More than 160,000 Allied troops took part ...
Eisenhower faced uncertainty about the operation, but D-Day was a military success, though at a huge cost of military and civilian lives lost, ...
D-Day - Operation Overlord Heritage Site | The United States Army
On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of ...
They were there on D-Day, on the beaches and in the skies. This is ...
American soldiers huddle inside a landing craft approaching Utah Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on D-Day. U.S. Army ...
Tomorrow, June 6, 2014, will be the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II. Seven decades ago, the largest ...
D-Day veterans look back 80 years later - The Redstone Rocket
Last June, Otis Branon visited the windswept Omaha and Utah beaches where American troops landed on D-Day and the Normandy American Cemetery ...
D-Day anniversary evokes strong, 75-year-old memories for ...
Tomorrow marks 75 years since 156,000 troops, most of them American, British and Canadian, engaged in a sea and air armada during World War II ...
Operation Overlord and D-Day - The National Archives Beta
By 1944 Britain (and its empire), the USA, and France were ready to open a second front against Nazi Germany, to liberate Western Europe. After months of ...