Here’s What You Need To Remember: The crucial aspect of D-Day was the surprise factor: even after the landings, the Nazis believed the main invasion would occur at Calais instead of ...

alongside the more than 2 million other Allied soldiers on the British Isles, started preparing for the Normandy landings. The Rangers (pictured training with British Commandos, above), completed ...

Lamb was one of the first British women to join the WRNS when ... portable harbours developed by the Brits and used extensively in the Normandy landings to facilitate offloading cargo onto beaches ...

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 ...

BRITISH NORMANDY MEMORIAL Heads of state ... The commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the pivotal Normandy landings by Allied forces on 4 June 1944.

The British would take three in the East sword ... videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage ...

The British Normandy Memorial now stands on a hillside ... Honouring the British servicemen who fell in the D-Day landings. But on 6th June the great majority of people will, I believe, speak ...

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.

A veteran who was wounded in Normandy and is the last surviving World War Two member of his British Legion branch ... three days after the D-Day landings in Normandy. "It was worth fighting ...

Joseph Bullock was just 19 when he took part in the Normandy landings in June 1944. His family say he never really spoke about his experiences - but he has proudly shown off his medals ...

Later, French President Emmanuel Macron, United States President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister ... on the basis of the war.” The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion ...