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On the eve of the 81st anniversary of D-Day Trooper Roy Cadman, described as a 'true British hero' and one of the first men ...
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months…” With these iconic words ...
Trooper Roy Cadman was a member of 1st Special Service Brigade which landed at Sword Beach at Normandy on June 6 1944 ...
The MSBS Grot, a family of modular rifles made by Poland's FB Radom, has features that make it "good for the jump," an ...
Somewhere in that black night, eight hundred feet below on the green fields of Normandy, D-Day awaited the men of the 6th Airborne Division. Daniel Frank Lyons was born May 4th 1925, Wood Green ...
Midnight to 2 a.m.: 180 paratroopers from the British 6th Airborne Division land by gliders east of Sword Beach and seize two bridges across the Caen Canal. The first of 15,500 paratroopers from ...
Cyril Braithwaite was 18 years old when he joined the Royal Ulster Rifles in the 6th airborne division as a glider-borne trooper and spent three years and nine months in the army. Despite its name ...
They were paratroopers from the 82nd, from the 101st Airborne Division and from the British 6th Airborne Division. And from our division in particular, several of our regimental combat teams at ...