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.

As time passes fewer from the Greatest Generation are around to share their stories. Among veterans, Wayzata resident Philip Harder, 88, belongs to an even more select group – those who were ...

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 ...

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.