As the D-Day landings began on Omaha Beach, Allied forces were met with devastating German fire, and their pre-invasion ...

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

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 ...

A decorated veteran who saw action in Afghanistan and Iraq is playing a crucial role in bringing a party of D-Day heroes back ...

(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 ...

Peter Wellman made a final visit last year to see the abandoned coastal village, where he was born and brought up. Tyneham in ...

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

A British war veteran who survived the D-Day landings, as well as being shot three times in the line of duty, has died aged 101. Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire ...

A D-Day veteran has been honoured with a memorial sign at his favourite park. Albert Price took part in the 1944 Normandy landings aged just 18 after lying about his age to join the Army two years ...

Peter Kent, from Westminster, served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Adventurer and took part in the Normandy landings. Now one ...