Normandy landings

Experts from the RAND Corporation, an American research organization, Rafael S. Cohen and Gian Gentile, believe that the position on the Ukrainian-Russian front is more reminiscent and has similarities with the battle in Normandy in July 1944, after the Allied landings, than with the trench battles of the First World War in the West front.

Maribor – An exhibition on the joint struggle of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union against Nazism during the Second World War will open on Thursday at the Maribor International Research Centre for Second World War in cooperation with the Moscow Museum of the Great Patriotic War.

Several ceremonies were being held Sunday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day, the decisive assault that led to the liberation of France and western Europe from Nazi control, and honor those who fell.

The invasion of Normandy, named Operation Overlord and launched 63 years ago to the day, was the largest amphibious military attack in history. In World War II, D-Day as it became known was instrumental in turning the tide against the Axis forces in the European theatre of war. Gen. Dwight D.

When northern Europe was in the clutches of Nazi control 70 years ago, 156,000 allied soldiers were there to fight for liberty.

The date these soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy – June 6, 1944 – would from that day forward be remembered as D-Day in the World War II conflict.

A 3D simulation at Dassault Systèmes virtually constructs the Arromanches artificial harbor as a tribute to the engineers who played a role in World War II As I stand on the beach of Arromanches, a small town in northern France, I watch hundreds of soldiers rigorously working aboard warships and scores of tanks slowly moving on platforms that link the military vessels to the land, float