I'm a British writer, living in Normandy. My primary interest and reason for joining WWIIF is to help in my research for a book. On June 21 1944...
I am looking for the LST 540 during the Normandy landings. I found that he arrived in Normandy on June 6 and that he was off the coast of Omaha on...
THE BATTLE OF SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE AND AFTER The Battle of Sainte-Mere-Eglise is among the most well-known episodes of the D-Day and the War in the...
BAYEUX 1940-1944: OCCUPATION, D-DAY, DE GAULLE I have journeyed to Normandy back in July 2019 and with this extensive 10 000-word article I’m...
If you have a Twitter account you can follow me @ArchivistWWII where I post great World War II-primary sources from our holdings as well as from...
Hello, I had a discussion today about Belgians in D-Day which evolved from a discussion about Poles in D-Day. So the problem we ran into is, that...
I am currently tasked with presenting a bio on S2C Peter M. Demmer. Thus far, I have only been able to acquire sparse information such as birth...
Whether by parachute or glider, the first allied soldiers to reach land didn't have an easy arrival....
For Pfc. Daniel Farley and the 5th Ranger Battalion, June 6 began a four-day odyssey from the beach, to the cliffs, to the Maisy Battery....
The men on Leonce Haydel's landing craft weren't expected to survive D-Day. Most of them didn't....
For thousands of soldiers and sailors, waiting for the D-Day invasion was a test of nerves....
