It was the scene of some of D-Day’s fiercest fighting, where almost 700 brave British troops were killed or wounded. Exactly 69 years ago today - June 6 1944 - courageous UK forces went ashore at ...

A planned concert to mark the 75th anniversary of the Allied forces landing on the beaches of France to liberate Europe from the Nazis in World War II has drawn outrage from some veterans who said ...

Ann Ansell and her son Michael have visited the graves of unknown sailors at Bayeux A woman has travelled to Normandy with her son to see for herself the beaches where her father landed on D-Day. Ann ...

D-Day veterans have protested after a new French Second World War tourism campaign ignored one of the Normandy beaches where British troops went ashore. Six tourist boards along the Normandy coast ...

The British forces that landed at Sword Beach had multiple objectives. Some SS (Commando) Brigade units were to link up with the Juno beachhead to the west; others were to drive southwards, cutting ...

Britain's Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, speaks to World War II veterans in Arromanches-les-BainsPicture: LEON NEAL/AFP Credit: LEON NEAL/AFP Heads of state gather on Sword Beach in ...

ON Thursday it will be 75 years since more than 160,000 servicemen set sail to Normandy to liberate France from the Nazis in a daring top-secret assault known as D-Day. Today, there are only a few ...

When Stanley Burrows set foot in France in the first hours of D-Day, he was carrying 56lb of kit, a Bren gun called Betsy and a bicycle. After bundling out of his landing craft, he plunged into the ...