Mer, where thousands of troops came ashore on D-Day on June 6, 1944. A local police spokesperson said ‘the driver hit ...

As an 18-year-old private, he was part of the invasion force which landed at Sword Beach on D-Day. He was later wounded in action and taken prisoner, spending the remainder of the war in Stalag IV-B.

A D-Day veteran who was drowning near Sword Beach has spoken of his gratitude at reaching his 102nd birthday. Harry Howorth marked the milestone by celebrating with the five generations of his family.

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

Winning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings. videoWinning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings Veterans recall what it was like to be part of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach, and the move inland to ...

Les Budding, 97, is one of Britain's last surviving D-Day veterans One of Britain's last ... fire for the first wave of troops who stormed Sword Beach on 6 June 1944. Mr Budding said: "On this ...

A MUCH-loved veteran of the Normandy landings from East Lancashire has died at the age of 99. Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, ...

The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force Their task was to break through Hitlers Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach codenamed SWORD Once ashore their problems were only ...

As an 18-year-old private, he was part of the invasion force which landed at Sword Beach on D-Day. He was later wounded in action and taken prisoner, spending the remainder of the war in Stalag IV-B.