You will find on this page all the news from the historic areas of Normandy, from the landing beaches to the drop zones of Operation Overlord, through the battlefields of the 1944 battles in the Calvados, Manche and Orne counties.
August 21, 2017 : Veteran George Klein did not land at the Pointe du Hoc
A veteran of the Second World War has been pretending to be a Ranger for several decades who has participated in the Pointe du Hoc assault on D-Day. This week he decided to admit that this was not the case.
August 17, 2017 : Dieppe raid 75th anniversary
On August 19, 2017, France remembers the allied raid of Dieppe on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of this military episode, the lessons of which were particularly useful for the preparation of Operation Overlord in Normandy.
August 13, 2017: 11th edition of the Acadian Week at Juno Beach
For the 11th consecutive year, the community of Courseulles-sur-Mer lives in the colors of Canada as part of the Acadian Week Festival.
July 30th, 2017: Death of American photographer John Morris
The American photographer John Morris, veteran of the Battle of Normandy, died at the age of 100 in Paris.
July 22nd, 2017: The identification of a Norman on an American photo of 1944 in Trévières
The family of an American veteran seeks to identify a young Norman in a picture of June 1944 taken during the Battle of Normandy at Trévières.
May 21, 2017: 73 years later, a veteran of the Battle of Normandy finds his curb back!
73 years after the landing of Normandy, an American veteran present at Omaha Beach on June 7, 1944 found his curb that he had lost back then.
May 21, 2017: The battle of La Fière, a movie in progress
A film about the Battle of La Fière, from the book of an American veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, Robert M. Murphy, is scheduled to be released in 2019.
May 18, 2017: Opening of the Normandy Victory Museum on May 19, 2017
The new museographic space is preparing to welcome its first visitors on Friday, May 19, 2017.
May 16, 2017: A British 101-year-old veteran is the oldest skydiver in the world
Bryson William Verdun Hayes, a British veteran of the Battle of Normandy, became the oldest person in the world to have perform tandem skydiving.
April 23rd, 2017: American Scouts federate on Omaha Beach.
More than 4,000 young American scouts gathered at Omaha Beach this Saturday, April 22, 2017. This is the eighth gathering since 1994.
April 13, 2017: An original landing craft discovered in Normandy… then destroyed.
A stroller discovers by chance the remains of an English landing craft on the beach of Merville in Calvados. But against all expectations, the municipal services preferred to get rid of it.
