"Otherwise, it's going to be different days." The USS Nevada fires on positions ashore during the landings at Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Wikimedia Commons) What the "D" in D-Day actually ...

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

Like Omaha Beach a few miles o the north and clearly visible below its bluffs, Utah was the scene of D-Day landings by our troops nearly two months ago. But here there are no bluffs and resistance ...

Outside Utah Beach, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Morton Deyo ... Nevada was more important than Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the D-Day landing in France. “That (state) is where the soul of the ship ...

The Americans would assault two beaches in the West code named Omaha and Utah. But the beaches ... give their account of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach; the first step towards defeating Nazi ...

June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day ... the plans for the landings. Up until the night of June 5, 1944, we thought we were doing a landing exercise with the Americans. Our ship, HMS ...

To plan for the operation the BBC ran a competition for French beach holiday photographs ... to prevent the leaking of the date of the D-Day landings. The planners were particular about the ...