It was the early hours of June 6, 1944. By the end of the day, 150,000 Allied soldiers, including 15,000 Canadians, would set foot in Normandy, opening a new front in the war against Nazi Germany.

A new memorial to soldiers who set off from the Hampshire coast on D-Day has been unveiled by a Normandy veteran. The Gosport D-Day fellowship raised funds for the seafront memorial, which has been ...

Canadian soldiers alight on Juno Beach in France, one of the five beaches Allied soldiers descended upon during D-Day -- 80 years ago this week. June 6 marks 80 years since Allied Forces landed on ...

At the break of dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 14,000 Canadian soldiers landed or parachuted on Juno Beach – a 10-kilometre stretch of French coastline in Normandy. Their objective was simple ...

Rooney reflects on D-Day 03:22. Tuesday, June 6, 2023, is the 79th anniversary of D-Day, when troops from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada landed on the beaches of France.

Stacker compiled a list of 50 facts and figures that defined D-Day, ... Canadian soldiers land on the beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. (Stacker/Stacker) AFP via Getty Images ...

Amid the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, here's everything you need to know about the landing of more than 150,000 Allied troops on June 6, 1944—the largest amphibious ...

Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...

D-Day saw unprecedented ... British and Canadian, the IWM reports, but ... Of the tens of thousands of troops that stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, 44 were soldiers, sailors and ...

Brown was born in 1923 and grew up in Dedham. His mother, Bertha Brown, would later remarry and had a second child, Marie, ...

American soldiers in a landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Album/Universal Images Group/Universal History Archive/UIG ...