THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

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

After D-Day, it would take almost another year of fierce fighting before Germany would finally surrender on May 8, 1945.

The museum is located less than a 10-minute walk north of the Gare de Bayeux station. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. from Feb. 1 through Dec. 31 (with abbreviated hours in the winter), the museum ...

The Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer (Calvados, Normandy) is the site of the graves of 9,389 soldiers who died in the D-Day Landings ... report an increase in US visitor numbers to ...

Hugh Smith Todd, a D-Day veteran who lived in Tadley until he died in 2005, has had a school in Normandy, France, named in his honour. The 84-year-old Second World War veteran, who was born in Glasgow ...

the 1944 Normandy landings. The design concept behind these new amphibious barges harkens back to the Mulberry harbors, temporary floating structures used by Allied forces during the D-Day landings.

Charities helping heroes return to Normandy for the 81st anniversary ... of Dutch liberation on May 5 and to Northern France to honour D-Day the month after. Facilitating the visits will cost ...

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 ...