Map of Normandy area, ... Rouen became one of France's greatest ports. ... this Upper Normandy town on the Seine is a delightful place to visit.

France's small towns are reeling from the spread of rioting. ... In Rugles, a Normandy village of 2,200, rockets were fired outside the Intermarché supermarket and fires lit.

Like many people, I’d been to Paris a few times, and I’d driven through the Van Gogh country of Southern France. But I’d never set foot in the province of Normandy in the north along the ...

This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline that was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. American troops attacked Utah and Omaha beaches.

FILE – Rouen, one of the most scarred cities in France, is seen after being completely freed from the Nazis, on Sept. 1, 1944. In the days following the allied landings in Normandy, Rouen was ...

From the Allied beachhead, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled a coolly realistic account of Normandy and the Normans: Along the roads of the Manche and Calvados, beside the ...