The nearby village of Sainte-Mère-Église is also worth a visit ... made for freedom. Juno Beach was the landing site for Canadian forces during the Normandy invasion. The beach stretches ...

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

But if you only visit for the day, you'll miss out on Normandy's picturesque ... 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...

A South Tyneside man has shared the story of how he got his name - and how it originated on the beaches of Normandy.

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects ... WW2 – did not to have its own D-Day memorial near the landing beaches. This is Nicholas's story, as recounted in Radio 4's ...

videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed before the beach was secured.