We trace the Allied hunt for the invasion coast, then step onto the cliffs at Longues-sur-Mer to tour Widerstandsnest 48, the gun battery built to dominate Gold Beach. Moving through the M272 ...

A new exhibition looking at life during the Second World War in Portsmouth from the viewpoint of children has opened at The D ...

Anthony Graziano managed welterweight champions Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus after serving in World War II.

A D-Day veteran has received over 1,000 cards for his 100th birthday following an appeal by his next-door neighbour. Arnold, ...

A street has been named in memory of a World War Two veteran who took part in the D-Day landings. Donald "Don" Sheppard, from Basildon in Essex, landed on Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 as a Royal Engineer ...

On June 6, 1944, American soldiers landed on Omaha Beach — and entered a storm of steel. Facing entrenched defenses, machine gun fire, and chaos, what unfolded was the bloodiest chapter of D-Day. This ...

A “RUPERT” paratrooper dummy designed to trick the Germans over the D-Day landings is up for grabs for a possible £6,000.

Maine will lower flags on Friday to honor Charles Norman Shay, the decorated Penobscot elder and D-Day medic who died last week in France.

Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday.

Shaughnessy has been out of action since September, when he pulled his hamstring in the second half of the 2-0 defeat to ...

A Royal Navy veteran who piloted a landing craft on D-Day has celebrated his 100th birthday in Cumbria. Arthur Williams, who was born in Hove in East Sussex, celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday, ...