An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...

Day, June 6, 1944, one of the most intense battles unfolded at La Fière Bridge, a key crossing in Normandy. The 82nd Airborne ...

If I'm talking about the smock now it's because of a challenge launched by two members of the Comando Entresierras. The first ...

Paddy is stopped running to London by a police officer in Northamptonshire, but ends up confiscating the copper’s bike to finish his journey. He makes it to London and is informed of the plan to ...

But it was not to last and they soon discovered that they will be deployed as paratroopers during the forthcoming Normandy invasion. There are plenty of scenes of the men back on land, reuniting ...

On 5 June 1944, aged 21, he took part in his first combat mission, dropping elite paratroopers into German ... surviving pilot from a pre-invasion Normandy mission. South Kesteven district ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

Paratroopers proved crucial for the Allies ... German tanks that were destroyed by British/Commonwealth forces in the Normandy Campaign were knocked out of action by PIATs. During the ...

As series two of Steven Knight's Second World War drama for BBC One concludes, find out whether there are more episodes to ...

To know that Austin, one of the Army's first paratroopers, was buried just blocks from his home felt like serendipity. Austin jumped into the Normandy invasion and into the Netherlands where he ...