The village, part of 'the Scottish Riviera', was a key site ahead of one of the most infamous World War II moments.

We needed to visit the D-Day landing sites in Normandy. We also travel with two ... the 30m high limestone cliffs of Pointe du Hoc. The location was important as a look-out to keep watch against ...

Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: ...

The location was the ... 1944, Allied landings that helped rid Europe of Adolf Hitler's tyranny. Like other towns and villages across the Normandy coast where nearly 160,000 Allied troops came ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne landings in continental Europe by ...

Cecil Newton, of Marlborough, Wiltshire, was one of more than 6,000 troops who left Lepe for the Normandy landings in 1944. He sadly passed away yesterday, Thursday, May 1. The 101-year-old ...

TASS/. Russia has not received an invitation from France to participate in the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings on June 6, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ...