Mer, where thousands of troops came ashore on D-Day on June 6, 1944. The tank on display was part of the 79th Armoured ...

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 ...

The Normandy landings, also known as D-Day, were a series of air- and seaborne ... Omaha and Utah - were split among the Allied forces with mainly British troops focused on Sword and Gold ...

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 ...

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 ...

The King has met with one of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings. Jim Glennie - now ... Museum celebrates the story of the British army regiment, which was originally raised by ...

Elsewhere, commemorations are taking place at Studland Bay where thousands of troops took part in a dress rehearsal for the beach landings ... D-Day on 6 June 1944 saw American, British and ...

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 ...

Between 1952 and 1967 in the largest TriService operation since the DDay landings over 20000 servicemen participated in British Nuclear Weapons Tests The development of these superweapons bought ...