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 ...

during the Ministry of Defence and Royal British Legion’s commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings at the Second World War British Normandy Memorial near the ...

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 ...

Six months before his 18th birthday, Ralph McClure signed up to the Royal Navy. He was a talented footballer and worked as a butcher in his local Co-Op in Nottingham. Ralph became a signaller on a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...