Two days before D-Day, his vessel left Weymouth for Normandy. He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches.

A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War II memorial in France. The memorial, a Churchill AVRE ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, where he suffered a shrapnel wound ... and found work as a draftsman ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France ... work as a draftsman for a company that manufactured aircraft landing gear. It was 1941, and tensions between the governments of the ...

The regiment had gained such a high reputation in North Africa that it was selected as one of the four armoured regiments ordered to lead the British assault landings on the Normandy beaches on ...

Ex-Scots Guard Ted Davidson, from Padiham, faced the horrors of D-Day as a 17-year-old, landing on Sword Beach and battling his way to Caen in his Churchill tank. He would later recall how troops were ...

History buffs and knitters will be sew impressed when this 80-metre-long D-Day diorama comes to the Forum in Norwich in February.

D-Day. At Pointe du Hoc the Rangers need to scale the cliffs and capture or disable the guns. Aside from the forces that are ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...