alongside the more than 2 million other Allied soldiers on the British Isles, started preparing for the Normandy landings. The Rangers (pictured training with British Commandos, above), completed ...

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 ...

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

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day ... Omaha and Utah - were split among the Allied forces with mainly British troops focused on Sword and Gold, American troops on Omaha and Utah, and ...

The British Normandy Memorial now stands on a hillside ... Honouring the British servicemen who fell in the D-Day landings. But on 6th June the great majority of people will, I believe, speak ...

His Majesty is Patron of the Royal British Legion ... Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music-led, multi-generational storytelling, reflecting on the Second World War at the ...

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 ...

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

BRITISH NORMANDY MEMORIAL Heads of state ... The commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the pivotal Normandy landings by Allied forces on 4 June 1944.

To commemorate 80 years since the Normandy landings, the figures travelled from a workshop in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, to the British Normandy Museum. The figures overlook Gold Beach ...

Later, French President Emmanuel Macron, United States President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister ... on the basis of the war.” The Normandy landings was the largest seaborne invasion ...