Like the rest of the D-Day force, the Rangers prepared ... started preparing for the Normandy landings. The Rangers (pictured training with British Commandos, above), completed the murderous ...

LONDON — Eighty years after Sir Winston Churchill helped mastermind the D-Day landings, a British prime minister was under ...

His Majesty is Patron of the Royal British Legion ... The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will attend ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music-led, multi-generational ...

Honouring the British servicemen who fell in the D-Day landings. But on 6th June the great majority of people will, I believe, speak with pride and recall with profound gratitude what those young ...

Associated Press Wednesday, April 24, 2024 3:01 p.m. | Wednesday, April 24, 2024 3:01 p.m. LONDON — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that ...

Several events have taken place in the UK and France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during the ... paratroopers from the British, Belgian, Canadian and US military took part ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

Paddy the Pigeon, who was hatched in Co Antrim, was the fastest of the flock when he was released on June 6, 1944, to deliver the news of the successful D-Day landings back to England.

Culture councillor Andy Martin said: "Poole played a pivotal role in the D-Day landings as the third biggest embarkation point for Overlord forces, helping to liberate Europe and defeat Nazi Germany.

PARIS, May 30. /TASS/. The French authorities do not consider inviting Russia to participate in the events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Reuters reported citing two ...