Sword Beach was primarily a British landing zone and saw a swift and efficient advance, with Allied forces capturing the town ...

A special Act of Remembrance at Cookstown High School War Memorial attended by pupils, governors, special guests and staff ...

The hour-plus parade down Harbor Boulevard recognized the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion at Normandy, France, during ...

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Akin carried an estimated 10,000 paratroopers as a pilot, and when he skydived at 99 years old ...

On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of Normandy, France. It was D-Day. The largest invasion force ever put together.

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

By the end of basic training, his instructors had made sure that the parachutists were landing their jumps correctly ... The ...

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

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and ...

Alton goes to Normandy Once trained, Alton was a prime candidate to participate in the D Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was one of 23,000 paratroopers who were loaded into giant C 47 ...

Lloyd Pinay from Peepeekisis First Nation says anger over the treatment of Indigenous veterans drove the creation of the ...