Cliff Brown died last month aged 98 at his home in Swanage, Dorset. He was laid to rest today at St Mary's Church in his ...

Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Nanaimo, he was born in London, England, on ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

The regiment had gained such a high reputation in North Africa that it was selected as one of the four armoured regiments ordered to lead the British assault landings on the Normandy beaches on ...

The names of 13 veterans from 12 allied countries are being added to the Normandy ... the landing craft LCS (M) 47 and was tasked with getting as close as possible to Juno Beach to locate and ...

To give you an idea of the sort of man Nigel Stoate is, when we ask him to pull the star of this story – his amphibious GMC-manufactured ‘DUKW’ landing craft – out of his garage, he has to fire up the ...

All history enthusiasts—or at least those particularly interested in military history—remember a date that marked a before and after in World War II: June 6, 1944. That day is usually referred to by ...

Splice the mainbrace, we are going to invade Normandy ... "We came off the beach area and the next job was to escort big tank landing craft which were being used as an emergency vehicle to ...

Victor Osborne died Feb. 1 at age 106. A fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies in Nanaimo, he was born in London, England, on ...

A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War Two memorial in Normandy, France ... The memorial, a Churchill AVRE Mark IV tank, is on display at Sword Beach next to the ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...

From the train station, the cemetery is best reached by car. Learn more on the cemetery's website. Normandy American D-Day Beaches Full Day Tour from Bayeux (1477 reviews) ...