The ruins of Normandy: Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating impact of the Allied Force's battle to defeat the Nazis in World War 2 A series of never ...

For civilians in Normandy, the D-Day invasion was ... to pulverise them. Their ruins would serve as roadblocks. The Allies dropped leaflets with warnings written in French – but unable to ...

On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast ... of the French Resistance and air reconnaissance, military bosses were able to target the best landing spots for D-Day.

The French Prime Minister ... has never been rebuilt. The ruins remain just as they were left by soldiers of the SS "Das Reich" armoured division four days after D-Day in 1944.

The team hopes their work of remembrance will draw in visitors on D-Day and beyond ... Many people on the northern coast of Normandy live with the vestiges of German army presence all year ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of a mass execution of German prisoners who were forced to dig their own graves and then shot by the French Resistance a few days after D-Day, during World War Two.

Emmanuel Macron's hosting of D-Day commemorations have been overshadowed ... and surface-to-air missiles deployed along northern French coast. However, it was too late to prevent the theft of ...