Inside, a bugler played the Last Post and the Reveille at the end of the service which was attended by almost 100 people ... some 156,000 Allied troops landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... he said: “They were people just like us. They said, ‘You fought well, we fought well’, especially the black people… They guarded us while ...

What will it take to turn the tide of the war? In commemoration of the 80th anniversary, D-Day: The Tide Turns follows the real people involved in the Normandy Landings.

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion in history, a feat months in the planning and kept secret from Nazi Germany despite a huge trans-Atlantic mobilization of industry and manpower.

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump ... For Steve the memories of landing here remain vivid. "The weather was not good.

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...