Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the D-Day ... the 'Desert Rats' - which took part in the D-Day landings and subsequent advance across France.

Aged 99, D-Day veteran Ken Cooke has outlived almost every comrade but refuses to be called a hero. To mark the 80th ...

A D-Day hero who survived the Normandy landings and being shot three times ... At just 20, he landed under fire at Gold Beach and helped liberate Europe. He lived to 101, bearing witness to ...

Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prevost Snr. was born on July 28, ...

The invasion date was initially set for 5 June. But the army's Chief Meteorologist, Group Captain James Stagg spotted a ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

Cecil Newton, aged 101, died peacefully in his sleep at 5pm yesterday (Thursday), his family has told newburytoday. Mr Newton ...

A D-Day veteran has been honoured with a memorial sign at his favourite park. Albert Price took part in the 1944 Normandy ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen ... Nevada fires on positions ashore during the landings at Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Wikimedia Commons) What the ...

On the day he would graduate from Clinton High School, Henry Langrehr was preparing to jump to the beaches of Normandy.