D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

The medals of Marsie Taylor, a courageous WW2 naval hero and Blitz rescuer, are heading to auction—highlighting an ...

During the pivotal years of the Second World War, particularly in the run-up to D-Day, this quiet corner of Hampshire was utterly transformed into ...

On D-Day Nurse Joyce Dandridge from Wooburn was waiting anxiously in a train in a railway siding somewhere on the south coast. It was no ordinary train, having been converted to an ambulance train.

D-Day marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War, a period of our history captured on screen in all its guts and ...

Mark Kulkowitz, son of D-Day veteran Harry Kulkowitz, traveled to Normandy with his father on Harry’s 80 th birthday, which was also the 60 th anniversary of D-Day. The museum is the first stop ...

D-Day, or Operation Overlord, was a massive Allied invasion of northern France by air and sea during World War II. The operation, on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of Europe from ...

A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years ... The day after the invasion, Thornton's unit searched for him, but he was not found. He was officially listed as ...

China is reportedly developing a new class of amphibious platforms known as Shuiqiao—translated as “water bridges”—to facilitate a potential future invasion of Taiwan ... used by Allied forces during ...

IT’S TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY SPONSORED BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM. IN APRIL OF 1942, THE PLANNING OF OPERATION BOLERO BEGAN AS PART OF THE PREPARATION FOR OPERATION OVERLORD, WHICH ...

Britain's last remaining veterans have been told D-Day costs will be fully-funded ... beaches for the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion on June 6, or for the 80th anniversary of the ...