The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...

SOUTHWICK, England (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, at Southwick House on Britain's southern coast, Allied commanders stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall map, planning the largest seaborne ...

Top-secret World War II maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 (over $30,000) - after being found in a cardboard box. The collection - giving ...

DRAMATIC pictures of the D-Day landings during World War II have come to light after 76 years. Lieutenant Stephen Malenoir-Vickers, of the Royal Engineers, cleared mines and paths across Juno Beach ...

The family of a World War II veteran has donated a rare D-Day map to the Library of Congress nearly 80 years after the document was used to coordinate the arrival of Allied troops for their fateful ...

Thousands of miles away this morning, across the Atlantic Ocean, in a cemetery on a bluff that looks down upon the beaches of Normandy in France, Mathieu Guillemant ensures 2nd Lt. John Howard Wheeler ...

"D-Day: Normandy 1944" is a concise and at times visually compelling overview of the planning, context and execution of the 1944 Allied military operation code-named "Overlord." More commonly known as ...

Top-secret WW2 maps used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 – after being found in a cardboard box. The collection – giving restricted-access detail of the five ...

'Secret' maps allegedly used by Allied troops for the D-Day landings have sold at auction for £23,000 - after being found in a cardboard box. The collection - giving sensitive detail of the five ...