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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

June 6, 2025, is the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion that definitively turned the tide of World War II and eventually led to the fall of the Nazis and their allies.

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 ...