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What happened on D-Day and why is it so important?
Yahoo News UK· 50 minutes agoNational leaders, royalty, and veterans will come together to remember the battle that became the turning point towards an Allied victory in the Second...
UK’s military leaders praise ‘courage, bravery, ingenuity’ of D-Day participants
Press Association News via AOL· 2 hours agoSpeaking at the national commemoration in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the First Sea Lord and head of the ...
D-Day 80: Royal Navy veteran dies days before anniversary
BBC News· 2 days agoLewis Curl served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was often deployed out of Portsmouth.
Royal Navy veteran who survived Second World War freighter sinking dies aged 98
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoA Royal Navy veteran who survived the sinking of a freighter off France during the Second World War...
Portsmouth chosen to mark D-Day because of its key role in preparing invasion
Press Association News via AOL· 1 day agoThe port city and historic home of the Royal Navy was part of the 10-mile deep coastal strip from...
Should the Royal Navy join the US in a very exclusive club? Good idea, but expensive
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoThe Dreadnought class is, of course, the Royal Navy’s new class of nuclear ballistic-missile...
Questor: This defence company could keep leading the charge beyond its 100pc return so far
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 17 hours agoQinetiQ has outperformed the FTSE 100 index by 89 percentage points - Ben Corbett/Royal Navy/Crown...
Flag waving and flypast mark major D-Day commemorations for 80th anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 2 hours agoSome 11 veterans with the Spirit of Normandy Trust joined commemorations in Colleville Montgomery on...
D-Day: Exbury House Wrens sculpture unveiled
BBC News· 22 hours agoExbury House was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1942 and known as HMS Mastodon during the war, with more than 100 Wrens, the Women's Royal Naval...
Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days ago-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of the landings in...