Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

D-day is simply a standard armed forces way of ... while the Commonwealth naval contingent was twice that of the Americans. There were five beaches, codenamed, from east to west, Sword, Juno ...

I think D-Day was the single greatest military operation ... To gain a foot hold in France the allies would attack five beaches along a 60 mile stretch of the Normandy coast.