D-Day 1944
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D-Day 1944: Voices from Normandy
By Robin Neillands, Roderick De NormannIn the event, D-Day was put back a month to June, which allowed an extra month to produce craft and train crews, while 'Anvil' was delayed until enough craft could be spared from Normandy to take the armies ashore in the South of France ...
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D-Day 1944: Utah Beach & US Airborne Landings
By Steve ZalogaThe D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. During the late spring and early summer of 1944 the roads and ports of southern...
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D-Day 1944: The Making of Victory
By Anthony Tucker-JonesBailey, Forgotten Voices of D-Day, p.14. These two plans were known as Fortitude South and Fortitude North. See Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 (London: Allen Lane, 2009).
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D-Day 1944: Gold & Juno Beaches
By Ken FordOperation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings of...
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D-Day 1944: Omaha Beach
By Steve ZalogaThe D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, were the largest amphibious military operation ever mounted. The greatest armada the world had ever seen was assembled to transport the Allied invasion...