D-Day. At Pointe du Hoc the Rangers need to scale the cliffs and capture or disable the guns. Aside from the forces that are to fight at the five major landing zones, many smaller groups do their duty ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder, the late John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, the National D-Day Memorial ...

Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed to ... built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes.

The talk will detail Dorset's involvement in D-Day, particularly of the first British infantry landing on the Normandy beaches; the 231 Malta Brigade, made up of the the 1st Hampshires, 1st Dorsets ...

Sitting in his living room to discuss his life, he proudly shared a picture he took with director Steven Spielberg during a D-Day anniversary ... to landing on beaches at Normandy Not long after ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France ... shared a picture he took with director Steven Spielberg during a D-Day anniversary celebration in France. Only later in the interview ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, where he suffered a shrapnel wound ... he proudly shared a picture he took with director Steven Spielberg during a D-Day anniversary celebration ...

The King has met with one of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings. Jim Glennie - now 99 - was an 18-year-old soldier when he took part in Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944 to liberate ...