Today marks the anniversary of one of the most significant military operations in modern history: the D-Day Normandy landings ...

A memorial sculpture which commemorates servicemen who played a crucial role in the D-Day landings has been unveiled at a former RAF base. The sculpture was inspired by the wooden Horsa gliders, an ...

D-Day on June 6 1944 marked the date when approximately 156,000 British, American and Canadian forces landed on five ...

More than 80 years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied troops launched a bold assault on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking a decisive turning point in World War II.

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months…” With these iconic words ...

D-Day warriors - dubbed The 'Famous Five' - return to Sword Beach for an extraordinary picture exactly 81 years after the mighty Allied invasion was launched.

Trooper Roy Cadman was a member of 1st Special Service Brigade which landed at Sword Beach at Normandy on June 6 1944 ...

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...

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 ...