his vessel left Weymouth for Normandy. He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches. It was not a nice thing - not ...

4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne landings in continental Europe by Allied forces. In the BBC’s new programme D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, remastered ...

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 ...

When the bravest of Britain’s armed forces stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day on June 6, 1944, few of them would have imagined that, 80 years later, their courage and sacrifice would be ...

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will attend ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music-led, multi-generational storytelling, reflecting on the Second World War at ...

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 ...

Taipei considers recruiting foreign fighters while Beijing’s new sea vessels draw inspiration from the 1944 Normandy landings ...

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

Eighty years on from World War II and the heroic D-Day Normandy landings, the story of the filmmakers who immortalised the terrible events of that fateful summer with memorable photos and film ...

For Steve the memories of landing here ... are held in Normandy every five years, meaning that sadly, there is every chance that this will be the last one in which D-Day veterans will be in ...