Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, from Padiham, faced the horrors of D-Day as a 17-year-old, landing on Sword Beach and battling his way to Caen in his Churchill tank. He would later recall how troops were ...
Day, June 6, 1944, one of the most intense battles unfolded at La Fière Bridge, a key crossing in Normandy. The 82nd Airborne ...
To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder, the late John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, the National D-Day Memorial ...
History buffs and knitters will be sew impressed when this 80-metre-long D-Day diorama comes to the Forum in Norwich in February.
A centuries-old harbor in France has long inspired painters such as Claude Monet and Eugène Boudin. Today, artists still ...
To commemorate his father’s service in World War Two, Nigel Stoate and his son sailed the Channel – and back – in their 1944 ...
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...