Epic Militaria

Epic Militaria We're a UK based company, specialising in WW2 German, British and American Militaria. We also have a range of Military surplus for all your needs!
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Worldwide shipping available! We offer a wide range of Reproduction & surplus military gear at great prices with worldwide shipping. Perfect for re-enactors and collectors alike!

19/06/2026

And they said Em was the one that needed educating... jeez

12/06/2026

Safe to say flirting isnt Ems thing! Also can we take that gavel off her!

22:00 6th June 1944Brutal fighting has been and continues to carry on throughout the Normandy area. Thousands of allied ...
06/06/2026

22:00 6th June 1944

Brutal fighting has been and continues to carry on throughout the Normandy area. Thousands of allied troops are flooding ashore as well as reinforcements and supplies also arriving by air. German counter attacks continue.

This concludes our run of the D-Day timeline, and we hope you have found the posts interesting and thought provoking.

The allies will continue to fight to break out of Normandy over the next few weeks.

Let us also not forget those on the other fronts around the world, on both sides, who fought and paid the ultimate sacrifice.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Photo courtesy of BBC R2 and Snappin’ turtle

21:00 6th June 1944As we move further into the evening of the 6th June, 82 years after the invasion of Normandy, D-Day, ...
06/06/2026

21:00 6th June 1944

As we move further into the evening of the 6th June, 82 years after the invasion of Normandy, D-Day, we look back at the sacrifice that was made by all of those who fought and died. Around this time, British patrols were approaching Bayeux, but heavy fighting was still happening across the whole of Normandy.

Our very own Product Specialist Adrian has been researching his Great Uncle, Captain Del Meier, who was a C-47 transport pilot with the USAAF during WW2. Del was with one of the squadrons, tasked to fly into Normandy following D-Day, to bring in supplies and bring wounded back to the UK. Adrian found an entry in his uncle’s diary, dated 12th June, 1944 where he wrote:

"I made the trip to the Beach head today which put me the closest to the enemy lines I have been – 17 miles. While waiting for our 24 wounded to be loaded, we walked over to a large area where about three hundred German prisoners were digging graves for about 1500 bodies; 1100 were American.
Standing there looking at the bodies lying in the covers, makes a guy realise how small his troubles are."

82 years on. We will remember them.

20:00 6th June 19446 German tanks of the Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 192 led by Captain von Gottberg made a breakthrough t...
06/06/2026

20:00 6th June 1944

6 German tanks of the Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 192 led by Captain von Gottberg made a breakthrough to Lion-sur-Mer where they observed the landing operations before falling back.

The First Suffolk Regiment troops attack the Hillman fortified site, defended by men of the 736th Grenadier Regiment, south of Sword Beach.

The French commandos of the 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins reach the locality of Le Hauger.

20:15
The German Hillman strongpoint is stormed by the men of the Suffolk Regiment and the tanks of the 13th/18th Hussars after hard fighting.

20:51
The last elements of the 6th airborne division land with 256 gliders on the landing zones of Ranville – LZ N – and northwest of Bénouville – LZ W – (Operation Mallard).

20:55
Beginning of airlanding operations - Operation Elmira – in the Hiesville sector, involving 36 Waco CG-4A gliders and 140 Horsa gliders towed by 176 Douglas C-47s belonging to four Troop Carrier Groups.
32 Horsa gliders from the 434th US Troop Carrier Group land in the Cotentin near Hiesville.

Photo shows the Hillman fortified site.

19:00 6th June 1944Around Colleville-sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach, violent fighting takes place between the American troops...
06/06/2026

19:00 6th June 1944

Around Colleville-sur-Mer, near Omaha Beach, violent fighting takes place between the American troops and the German defenders.

At Pointe-Du-Hoc, around 19:25, the Germans launch a counter-offensive in the east towards the US Rangers positions.

By 19:40, General Dietrich Kraiss is informed that ‘The 9th company of the 726th Grenadiers regiment is surrounded by the enemy by the east and the south”.

16:00 6th June 1944German counter-attack towards the bridge of La Fière, 3 km from Sainte-Mère-Eglise, defended by Ameri...
06/06/2026

16:00 6th June 1944

German counter-attack towards the bridge of La Fière, 3 km from Sainte-Mère-Eglise, defended by American paratroopers of Able Company, 505th PIR of the 82nd Airborne.

Omaha Beach - The first American Sherman tank reaches the road linking the beach to Colleville. It is then destroyed by an anti-tank gun.

Gold Beach - The German Wn 35 strongpoint at Le Hamel is under the control of the 1st Royal Hampshire battalion.

Aerial bombardment of the city of Caen. Bombing of the German battery at Mont-Canisy by 37 Marauder aircraft, which drop 61 tons of bombs on the site.

The Shropshire Regiment liberates the locality of Biéville south of Sword Beach, while its armoured support of the Staffordshire tanks reaches Blainville.

Marshal von Rundstedt is authorized to engage his two armoured divisions.

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