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"As the world prepares to commemorate D-Day on its 70th anniversary Friday, the story of the largest seaborne invasion in history is unfolding in real time on Twitter.\nExperiencing the D-Day mission minute-by-minute via Twitter gives us a real sense of what actually took place, allowing us to connect with the event in a more meaningful way. Join others on the social network in remembering D-Day by reliving the events of June 6, 1944. \nSee also: 14 Stunning Photographs That Bridge Past and Present\nCheck out the Twitter accounts below, which have already started tweeting, to follow D-Day as if it were covered today. \n1. @CBCDDayLive\n\nWith the invasion now on, British paratroopers with the 6th Airborne Div. are briefed about the mission pic.twitter.com/7wwVu3Fz1N/p&gt;\u2014 @CBCDDayLive June 5, 2014\nCanadian news channel CBC News Network will be covering details from the D-Day battles in real time, with special attention to Canada's role in the historic invasion. \nWhile tweeting, CBC has been publishing archival photographs of D-Day scenes from its own government resources and other museums to support the events. \nNot only can you find its coverage on the Twitter handle @CBCDDayLive, but also on its website, television channels and radio programs. \n2. @RealTimeDDay\n\nTank crews of the Churchills prepare for embarkation as the D-Day invasion looms. pic.twitter.com/BUyBbLu2xJ/p&gt;\u2014 @CBCDDayLive June 5, 2014\nCreated by The News, a daily newspaper in Portsmouth, UK, @RealTimeDDay is live tweeting the build-up and execution of the D-Day mission. \nBehind the tweets is defense correspondent Sam Bannister from The News. As events occur, @RealTimeDDay illustrates certain posts with photos of veterans and other scenes from its own archive. \nPortsmouth is home to Britain's main naval port, which is one of the locations where tens of thousands of servicemen left for the invasion 70 years ago.\n3. @ukwarcabinet\n\nhttps://twitter.com/ukwarcabinet/status/474460899345186817; @ukwarcabinet June 5, 2014\nUsing official government and military documents from The National Archives in the UK, @ukwarcabinet tells the stories of the landings on Normandy's beaches. From army unit diaries to admiralty ship logs, this Twitter timeline provides a deep insight into how D-Day panned out.\nThe live tweeting for D-Day will run until Sunday, June 8.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\nBONUS: 'Full Victory \u2014 Nothing Else': Iconic D-Day Images for Its 70th Anniversary\n\n\n\nD-DAY 70th Anniversary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican soldiers crouching behind the bulkhead of a barge get ready to land for the Normandy Invasion in June of 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral beachhead area in Normandy, France, showing U.S. troops and equipment on the move, on June 11, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSitting in the cover of their foxholes, American soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force secure a beachhead during  initial landing operations at Normandy, France, June 6, 1944.\n\nImage: Weston Haynes/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn anonymous American soldier, who died in combat during the Allied invasion, lies on the beach of the Normandy coast, in the early days of June 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarauders of the 9th Air Force bombardment group fly over units of the Allied fleet as they approach landfall on the French coast on June 21, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWith his hair matted, and a weary but determined look in his face, this American soldier has his hand bandaged by a fellow medical officer, after he was wounded in battle in the early days of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, in June 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBritish troops, trucks and ambulances stand on deck in readiness as the transport ship nears the coast of France, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy on June 8, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican reinforcements arrive on the beaches of Normandy from a Coast Guard landing barge on the French coast on June 23, 1944.\n\nImage: U.S. COAST GUARD/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn unidentified Allied landing craft of, right, burns just off the shore somewhere on the north coast of France on June 6, 1944 during the invasion.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAirmen of the Airborne Forces were among the first landings made in France  during the Normandy invasions on June 6, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWounded British troops from the South Lancashire and Middlesex regiments are being helped ashore at Sword Beach, during the D-Day invasion of German occupied France during World War II on June 6, 1944. \n\nImage: British Navy/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, \"Full Victory - Nothing Else,\" to paratroopers somewhere in England just before they board their planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe on June 6, 1944.  \n\nImage: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMen and assault vehicles storm the beach as Allied landing crafts reach their destination during the initial Normandy landing operations in France on June 6, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMembers of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. \n\nImage: International News Photo Pool/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA soldier\u2019s helmet tops the wooden cross with an inscription written in French on this grave of an American soldier made by French civilians in France on June 18, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Piccadilly Circus, crowds of Londoners read the first news of the invasion in the editions of the evening papers on June 6, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nU.S. Navy men take apart a German \"Beetle,\" a miniature tank loaded with explosives, during the Allied Normandy landings in France in June 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYoung Field Marshal Erwin Rommel headed Germany's Army Group B, on the coast hit by the Allied invasion, on June 6, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican paratroopers proudly display a captured Nazi flag after they made a successful landing behind the German lines on the Normandy coast of France on June 9, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo Royal Air Force officers are presented with flowers by French children in France on June 10, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican and German soldiers who paid for the invasion of France with their lives lie on the French ground covered with sheets, awaiting burial on June 12, 1944. \n\nImage: Acme/Brandt/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerman soldiers come over the crest of a hill with their hands over their heads in surrender to American troops during the battle for the Normandy beachhead in France on June 11, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarrying their shoes and with their trousers rolled above their knees, a group of German prisoners stand on the beach of Normandy on June 14, 1944 waiting for transportation to England by landing craft.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllied casualties injured in the battles for the French beachhead lie on litters across the deck of a landing craft on June 17, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDucks (amphibious trucks) follow foot troops ashore during the World War II opening invasion of France by Allied forces on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.  \n\nImage: U.S. Coast Guard/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerica soldiers, equipped with full pack and extra allotments of ammunition, march down an English street to their invasion craft for embarkation on June 6, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA little French girl finds three admirers from the ranks of American forces who have made a speedy and successful advance through Normandy, France on June 22, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPfc. Jerry Casillo, of Buffalo, N.Y., cleans his rifle during a rare moment of rest while his fellow soldiers catch some sleep on a beachhead at Normandy, France, during the Allied invasion on June 15, 1944.\n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmerican troops follow in the tracks of tanks as they march along the beach during Allied Normandy landing operations in France, on June 9, 1944.  \n\nImage: Peter Carroll/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoyal Air Force planes, towing gliders, are silhouetted in the light of dawn on D-Day over the English Channel on June 13, 1944. \n\nImage: AP Photo/Associated Press\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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