The 2024 D-day commemorations sent a message of European unity but missed the opportunity to acknowledge Ukraine’s contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
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The prime minister attempted to play the populist and ended up playing into the hands of Nigel Farage.
Veterans are rightly centered in D-day events but the speeches that invited heads of state deliver bring proceedings into the geopolitical present.
Scientists with expertise in mud and peat were a key part of planning the Normandy landings in 1944.
D-Day has drawn the attention of numerous filmmakers over the years. Here are ten of the best D-Day films, each showing the invasion’s prominent place in international memory.
In the first wave to hit the beach, troops were met by withering German gunfire. But they kept pushing and established a small beachhead from which the invasion could continue.
The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.
A pre-World War II US Navy plan for a modular floating platform has developed into a key lifeline in Gaza and at disaster sites around the world.
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
The film pays homage to the war generation, revels in forties nostalgia and stakes an assertive British claim to the memory of the Allied invasion.
Remembrance for post-veteran generations involves learning about history, trying to comprehend the what, how and why and its relevance today.
Relations between the UK and the US haven’t always been that “special”.
You might think it morbid, but people have many reasons for visiting the sites of battles and disasters.
How engineers helped the Allies defeat Nazi Germany and win World War II.
Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
The latest film about Britain’s revered war leader struggles to capture the man – or give his wife the credit she deserves.
During World War II the US military forged partnerships with industry and academia that translated laboratory findings into working products at an unprecedented pace.
On June 6 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. Their number rose to 1.5m over the next six weeks. With them came millions of tons of equipment, ranging from munitions, vehicles, food…
As President Obama looks across the beaches of Normandy for the ceremony commemorating the D-Day landings, he could be forgiven for feeling ambivalent. Certainly, these are sites of great tragedy and a…
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