Videos, photos, articles, and links that expand on the printed magazine issue
Follow American fighting men as they prepare for and launch the great Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944.
Two years before the Allies launched their full-scale invasion of German-occuppied France, they tested themselves with a raid on the port city of Dieppe. They learned that they had a lot to learn.
Watch a wartime German newsreel footage and see how the Nazi government made German civilians think the Allied invasion of Normandy was another victory for the Third Reich.
The army General George Patton fielded for the 1944 Normandy Invasion was unlike any other. It was a complete and unabashed fake.
GIs moved about in British towns wearing these insignia for the fake units of Patton’s phantom army so that spies would see them and report back to Hitler. From the Ramkas Collection.
The Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia has answers for your questions about D-Day equipment, weapons, and more.
Whether you’re heading to France or just traveling “virtually,” let Normandie Memoire be your guide.
Learn more about the predawn jumps of US paratroopers and their activities in and around on D-Day at the website of the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mère-Église.
Frank C. Everards has put together a huge online collection of D-Day veterans’ firsthand accounts of June 6, 1944, with lots of supporting material.