The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
Faces of the Second World War
Lance-Corporal J.G. Kallenberger searching a group of German prisoners en route back to Germany, Den Helder, Netherlands, 27 May 1945.
1856 A Battalion of Montreal Artillery is established: it is the earliest corps of garrison artillery formed after the passage of the Militia Act 1855.
