A veteran who took part in the Normandy landings has described the anguish of battle ahead of the 80th anniversary. Centenarian Arthur Oborne, from Portishead, near Bristol, was shot through the ...

It involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of troops on five separate beaches in Normandy. More than a year in the planning, D-Day was originally set to start on 5 June, judged to ...

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Juno and Sword Members of a West Sussex military vehicle preservation society are preparing to join a "landing force" in northern France to mark D-Day. Thousands of people visit Normandy each year ...

What will it take to turn the tide of the war? In commemoration of the 80th anniversary, D-Day: The Tide Turns follows the real people involved in the Normandy Landings.

The two were among more than 500 Canadian paratroopers who dropped into Normandy to lay the groundwork of landing 150,000 soldiers ... good time in his life — people in the smaller towns they ...

Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump ... For Steve the memories of landing here remain vivid. "The weather was not good.

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 ...

Russia has not received an invitation from France to participate in the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings on ... Decent people send a letter and then announce it.