D-Day Landings

This week in history: on the 6th of June 1944, over 150,000 troops from 13 countries would land on the coast of Normandy, enacting ‘Operation Neptune’ on what has come to be known as ‘D-Day’. Airbone and amphibious landings were made,...

The Marshall Plan

This week in history: on the 5th of June 1947, in a speech before students of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined his plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe post-World War II. In March 1948, the United States Congress...