As the Allies prepared to invade Normandy, a small team of SAS commandos and 400 straw-filled burlap dummies duped the Nazis ...

Brockville Rifles Contributed Over 150 Soldiers, Playing a Significant Role in D-Day Brockville – It was eighty-one years ago today, June 6th, 1944, that Canadian forces stormed Juno Beach ...

His Sherman tank clashed with the 12th SS Panzer Division at Fontenay-le-Pesnel. The tank was hit by a shell and immediately started to burn. He pushed one of his comrades out of the vehicle, ...

His unit landed in the evening and were soon in the action and he was in a Sherman tank as they clashed with the 12th SS Panzer Division at Fontenay-le-Pesnel. His tank was hit by a shell and ...

His unit landed in the evening and were soon in the action and he was in a Sherman tank as they clashed with the 12th SS Panzer Division at Fontenay-le-Pesnel.

A decorated Second World War veteran — and one of the last surviving veterans from the D-Day landings — has died aged 99. Earlier this year, Roy Hayward was celebrated as a national hero at ...

His unit landed in the evening and were soon in the action and he was in a Sherman tank as they clashed with the 12th SS Panzer Division at Fontenay-le-Pesnel. His tank was hit by a shell and ...

“In our first half-hour of combat, we turned around the 1st SS Panzer Division, which had never been done before,” Miller said. Cohn, meanwhile, was hitchhiking to a town near the border.

“The 1st SS Panzer Division was coming down the road with no one to support” the Allied troops. ... Cohn and another interpreter were attached to the 12th Army Group.

The 2nd SS Panzer Division finally arrived in Normandy on June 12th, six days too late to help stop the Allied invasion.

They grew up under the Nazi regime. They pledged to give their lives for Hitler. They were fanatics who would not be stopped. They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division.