The Battle of Normandy is visualized from above using Google Earth, compressing the D-Day invasion and its movements into a rapid one-minute overview. The map provides a different perspective on one ...

Photographs can make history feel immediate, the events behind them often changing entire nations through ripple effects. This collection focuses on famous photos whose historical importance extends ...

Gunn’s reconnaissance flight of March 5, 1942, was the RAF’s 113th mission to find and photograph the Tirpitz —a high-stakes ...

According to Dr Robert James, senior lecturer in cultural and social history at the University of Portsmouth, it was the perfect location because it was strategically placed, secluded, and "very plush ...

Even with today’s forecasting technology, D-Day would not have been an easy call as portrayed in the new movie, Pressure.

The Allies needed fuel in France faster than tankers and ports could supply it. Operation PLUTO carried gasoline beneath the English Channel, feeding the Normandy breakout through one of WWII’s ...

Experts helped guide weather scenes in Pressure – a film depicting dramatic buildup to 1944’s D-day landings ...

Tucked into the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central-western Virginia, Bedford is the kind of town that doesn’t need to advertise itself because the experience of being there does all the ...

The new movie PRESSURE is in cinemas now and tells the true story behind the Met Office’s most important forecast; the one for the D-Day invasion. But what’s the historical reality behind the film?

The story at the heart of this absorbing film is true, or mostly true, but if it weren't you'd think it had been machine-tooled to appeal to a British audience.

The most gripping war film hitting theaters right now does not feature a single beach landing. ‘Pressure,’ the new WW2 drama from director Anthony Maras, builds its entire climax around a weather map ...

Pressure is not a typical war film. Here the tension is decided not on the beaches of Normandy but in a room full of weather ...