Blog: Persons

Hugo van Kuyck had a great share in the precise maps of the beaches on which the Allies landed during D-day in 1944.

Robert Sink was a US Army officer during World War II, the Korean War and during the Panama campaigns.

Michael Wittmann was a notorious German tank commander in the Second World War. Who was active during the Battle of Normandy.

Erwin Rommel, 'The Desert Fox', was a German field marshal who played an important role during World War II in North Africa and Normandy.

Bernard Montgomery, since 1946 Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, (Kennington, Greater London), was an English general and field marshal.

Winston Churchill, a British statesman who as Prime Minister from 1940-1945 resisted Hitler and thus played a decisive role in the Allied victory.

Richard Winters of Easy Company took part in the invasion of Normandy. Later he fought in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.