Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the challenges ...

For more information about the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy Tourism website. Normandy American D-Day Beaches Full Day Tour from Bayeux (1609 reviews) D-Day Beaches ...

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

Aged 99, D-Day veteran Ken Cooke has outlived almost every comrade but refuses to be called a hero. To mark the 80th ...

I spent an hour engrossed in the nearby Utah Beach Landing Museum ... through quiet villages to the sobering Normandy American Cemetery, where 9,000 US soldiers are buried.

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

To gain a foot hold in France the allies would attack five beaches along a 60 mile ... videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... was the biggest seaborne invasion in all of history. The five beaches - mission-named from east to west as Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah ...

The D-Day landings, which took place a year before liberation, marked a pivotal moment during World War Two. It was the ...

Mr Newton's tank crew was in action for just a few minutes after landing in Normandy. The tank was among several not to make it off the beach when it sank in a water-filled shell hole, but all the ...