Francis ‘Jim’ Grant joined the Royal Marines aged 18 in 1943 and served until 1946, patrolling beaches and escorting allied ...
British veteran Mervyn Kersh, 101, joins other World War II veterans questioning their service's value as he argues the ...
Germany failed at Normandy because everything went wrong at once. Hitler insisted the invasion would hit Calais, delayed the Panzer response while he slept, and refused to accept Normandy was the real ...
Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of ...
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. Its success heralded the beginning of the ...
Biden has joined other world leaders and veterans to commemorate the Normandy landings, the Allied forces’ surprise attack that helped liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — ...