After landing at 08:00, the commandos’ main ... on the River Orne and Caen Canal where they met with British paratroopers who ...

German General Wilhelm Falley, 91st Air-Landing Infantry Division ... The post This German general ran right into paratroopers on D-Day appeared first on We Are The Mighty.

Ahead of D-Day, it became part of the 6th Airborne Division. Paratroopers and glider-borne ... Mr Arthur says he was part of the second wave, landing near Ranville. He was trained as a machine ...

On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of ...

An 81m-long knitted 3D depiction of D-Day is being unveiled in the town regarded by many as the spiritual home of the British ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... In Normandy in France, paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian ...

A Leicestershire town is to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day with events to remember US ... in the months before the Operation Overlord landings in Normandy on 6 June. Braunstone Town Council ...

World War II hero Harry 'Tosh' Monks spent D-Day being peppered by German fire on top of a tree - now his medals are expected ...

This year, we commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy France, where 340 soldiers from the 3rd ...

The D-Day invasion on June 6 ... faced navigational errors, scattering paratroopers across the Normandy countryside. Similarly, the amphibious landings encountered stronger-than-expected German ...

The projections featured images of soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in the D-Day landings, Women's Auxiliary ...