THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword beaches This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline ... control of the defense of the Atlantic Wall in late 1943. However, he was ...

The once impenetrable German Atlantic Wall lay shattered by the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy. 15 House Republicans – a group large enough to turn the tide in any vote – warn ...

In Normandy, Rommel notices the incomplete state of the defensive fortifications, the slow pace of constructing the Atlantic Wall, and the lack of preparedness of the defending units mostly ...