A plaque unveiled at Gold Beach in Normandy to remember Surrey's D-Day veterans is a "wonderful honour", the family of one of ...

A few hours after the D-Day landings, while Allied troops were ... million tons of material – to build two full-sized floating harbors, codenamed “mulberries,” off Omaha and Gold Beaches ...

The complete construction sequence for the harbors was to be 18 days following June 6, 1944, D-Day. Most of the phoenixes were towed across the English Channel, positioned, and sunk within the ...

World War Two veterans have returned to the beaches of Arromanches, 70 years after allied troops landed there as part of the D-Day operation. They were greeted by tourists rather than German ...

Pipe Major Trevor Lily played on a section of the Mulberry Harbour in Arromanches at the exact time the first British troops landed on the beaches in 1944. D-Day veterans are being joined in ...

D-Day was one of the most complex military operations ... The solution? Mulberry Harbors—two massive floating harbors built in complete secrecy and towed across the English Channel.

Sand was raked within stencils to create silhouettes of civilians, German forces and Allies who died on Arromanches beach on 6 June 1944, external. The artwork, called The Fallen, was the ...