NORMANDY — As a student of military history, especially World War II, I had longed to perhaps someday visit Normandy, the ...

EX-Royal Marines Colonel Al Carns became the first serving defence minister to march with veterans at the Cenotaph. Carns, 42 ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip ... Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest city to the landing site not destroyed ...

Michel in Normandy ( Distance from Cherbourg 2 hours 40 by train) Explore the Atlantic Wall and the Normandy Landings. ...

Among those paying their respects in central London today, at an event led by the King, was a 104-year-old war heroine whose awards include France's highest.

Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the landings, he said many of the books written about the operation were “silly” and “a load ...

to work out what the weather conditions would be like in Normandy. Stagg predicted that 5 June would be too stormy for a landing, but a break in the weather would make the invasion possible the ...

Alton goes to Normandy Once trained, Alton was a prime candidate to participate in the D Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was one of 23,000 paratroopers who were loaded into giant C 47 ...

Joining the ATS at 17 in 1941 with her parents’ consent, Mary Cholwill was working as a telephonist and plotter in Dorset ...

After landing, he could recall hearing that ... a photo of himself next to one of them that is kept with the map. His traveled to Normandy for the 75th anniversary. He made the trip with Bob ...