Two days before D-Day, 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.

The unfortunate accident took place when Kate covered the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings for GMB in June 2024. She explained: "I was walking through the poppies, looked down and saw I’d ...

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

Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, some 156,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, to defeat the Nazis. Here’s a look back at one of the most courageous days in history.

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 ...

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 ...

A MUCH-loved veteran of the Normandy landings from East Lancashire has died at the age of 99. Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, ...

When Marilyn’s family moved to Hamilton, she enrolled in the fourth grade at Madison Elementary School. She asked a classmate, Gayle Timberman Miller, a woman who became a lifelong friend, about that ...

Experts told The Telegraph that the barges, which seemingly draw inspiration from the “Mulberry Harbours” built for the Normandy landings in 1944, could prove critical in an amphibious ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...

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

For the first time, the identity of the most secret decoy in the plot to fool Hitler over the Normandy landings of 1944 is revealed: King George VI.