Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump made in the dead of night 80 years earlier ... one in which D-Day veterans will be ...

and as the years went by convinced themselves they could sail the ship from San Francisco back to Normandy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D-Day. “You couldn’t do a job like this anywhere ...

A 100-year-old veteran who was injured during the D-Day landings said he had found himself ... memories into paintings depicting what happened 80 years ago. Over the years his pacifist beliefs ...

Plans to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings have been announced by a city council. A service and parade will take place in Southampton on 6 June - exactly 80 years on from the ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally ... hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent ...

Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...

Known as D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, this Allied offensive of June 6 exactly 80 years ago became one of the most significant turning points of World War II. When an individual emerges ...

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

The Longest Yarn exhibition, described as a ‘stunning’ and ‘moving’ 80-metre knitted tribute to the D-Day Landings ... urgently needed to keep 900 year-old building open seven days ...