A service of celebration has been held for a D-Day veteran who died in December. William Wake, from Ulgham near Morpeth, ...

The invasion of Normandy wasn't accomplished strictly through American forces. Meet the 3rd Canadian infantry division that stormed Juno Beach. Their mission was to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...

A D-Day hero today paid his respects ... invasion force to clear the sea off 'bloody' Omaha Beach. He then had to go aboard a broken down landing craft and was trying to fix it when it took ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans ... the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the ...

This Thursday, June 6, the Falkland Islands will also be joining the D-Day 80th Anniversary of the beach landings in Normandy with the lighting of a beacon at 5:15 PM, under the motto of ...

Plans are under way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in a town where thousands ... troops took part in a dress rehearsal for the beach landings. Several tanks sank when they were ...

The Prince of Wales will attend the international commemorative ceremony at Omaha Beach ... of Gloucester will attend ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music ...

The D-Day invasion ... eventuality. A landing craft disembarks troops of Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division wading onto the ... [+] Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning ...