A gospel choir performed as part of the moving service to remember those who gave their lives for their country ...
On June 6, 1944, 22-year-old Victor Nelson was the eighth paratrooper to jump in the blackness covering the coastline of ...
This year's Remembrance Day marks 80 years since the D-Day Landings in Normandy and the Battle of ... a former member of The Parachute Regiment. READ MORE: The Queen to miss Remembrance Day ...
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 66,143 of the 16.4 million Americans who served in World War II are alive. Approximately 131 World War II veterans die each day, according to the ...
The following closures will be in place on Sunday, November 10: This year's theme is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day ...
With its aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and missile systems, France's military is among Europe’s most modern. In terms ...
A special Act of Remembrance at Cookstown High School War Memorial attended by pupils, governors, special guests and staff ...
A total of 6,000 ships and landing craft, and a total of 822 C-47’s (Skytrain) aircraft. An invasion point of 50 miles of the Normandy coastline ... 502 nd Parachute Infantry Regiment ...
His served in North Africa, the Middle East, Aegean and Cyprus, having trained with parachutes and to jump from a 15ft ... He joined the Army in 1944 in a reinforcement group supporting the Normandy ...