Today is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a seismic event in World War II that turned the tide (figuratively, at least) of the war in favour of the Allies. Today, heads of state including Queen Elizabeth II, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend the official 70th anniversary of the invasion. The event will take place in the British sector at the Channel port of Ouistreham on Sword Beach. Meticulously planned for three years and miraculously kept an extremely strict secret, the storming of the Normandy beaches by thousands of … Continue reading #DDay landings, the 70th anniversary – details of the big day in 1944 – an annotated infographic