Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...

The D-Day landings, which took place a year before liberation, marked a pivotal moment during World War Two. It was the ...

A D-Day hero who survived the Normandy landings and being shot three times has died aged 101. Cecil Newton, a trooper with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on ...

The role of pigeons during World War Two has been remembered as owners gathered for the start of a pigeon club's racing ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

100-year-old Bob Gibson paid tribute to comrades who fell on D-Day, when he landed on the other, less-bloody American landing beach, code-named Utah. “You don’t want other people to go through ...

The most striking aspect of the commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings earlier this decade was the testimony of the veterans who participated in the conflict and ...

Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The operation was designed to divert Axis attention away from Normandy, the site of the D-Day landing, and after the invasion, to delay reinforcement by convincing the ...

Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...

(photo: Steck, U.S. Army Signal Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and later became a ...