Cliff Brown died last month aged 98 at his home in Swanage, Dorset. He was laid to rest today at St Mary's Church in his ...

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 ...

An engineering feat, the harbors were used to unload troops, vehicles and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June ... its creation and the D-Day landings. Recent visitors praised ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a wide-ranging counterterrorism operation in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. The IDF, Israel Security Authority and Israel Border Police announced ...

“In operation, the barge would act as a pier to allow the unloading of trucks and tanks from cargo ships,” Sutton explains. “This allows China to pick new landing sites and complicate ...

But the key part of winning WW II was the invasion of France, hence the planning of the greatest sea and air invasion in history: Operation Overlord. Written and Hosted by Colin D. Heaton.

Members of the Special Boat Service (SBS) are being investigated over a UK special forces operation in Libya two years ago, the BBC has been told. The Daily Mail, which first reported the ...

was 20 years old when he served as second in command on a landing craft at Utah Beach, transporting US tanks and soldiers to Normandy for Operation Overlord. On the 80th anniversary of D-Day ...

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began ... who led the planning for Operation Overlord. The commemoration kicked off with a flypast by Dakota ...

Lieutenant Richard Willis RN was the second in command on a landing craft For his birthday the veteran was present with a chart of the Utah beach landings Lt Willis said: 'I was just there. But D-Day ...