It involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of troops on five separate beaches in Normandy. More than a year in the planning, D-Day was originally set to start on 5 June, judged to ...

Those Juno Beach landings had a distinct Prairie flavour ... Less than three weeks after the Normandy landings, the Soviets — with considerable material help from the West — launched a ...

At Gold Beach, Arromanches ... echoing the actions of a lone piper from the original Normandy landings who miraculously was never fired upon. Maj Macey-Lillie, speaking with PA news agency ...

The BBC is currently working on the project with a number of partners including the Normandy Memorial Trust and Royal British Legion. Some of the stories collected may be shared with our partners ...

A new memorial statue in Normandy shows three British soldiers fighting their way up the beach. He was stretchered onto a landing craft, before being moved to a Canadian hospital ship, then ...

Frederick Temple was one of the last survivors of the Allied beach landings at Normandy in 1944 before his death ...

The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion ... Thousands were killed on both sides on the beaches, codenamed Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha by the Allies. Lines of white marble ...

Fredrick Temple, who was one of the last survivors of the Allied Forces' Normandy beach landings in 1944, died in a luxury ...

A few months after events marking the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Europe in June 1944 concluded, officials in Normandy have unanimously agreed to update an application for World ...