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Mountain View Telegraph· 5 hours agoIn 1885 Titans Scaling the Sky won him a travel scholarship to Italy. In 1896 he was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur as a result ...
Halesowen veteran of landings 'frightened, but daren’t show it'
BBC News· 3 hours agoGunner and radio operator Les Marsh, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, went over to Normandy from...
Harry Howorth, infantryman commended for gallantry at Sword Beach on D-Day – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoHarry Howorth , who has died aged 102, served with the 2nd Battalion The King’s Shropshire Light...
Jersey D-Day veteran 'escaped death many times'
BBC News· 2 hours agoAcross the UK and France, two days of events are taking place to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. The landings were the largest...
D-Day weatherman should receive award, says veteran's son
BBC News· 2 hours agoThe British weatherman who persuaded the supreme allied commander to postpone the D-Day landings...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
The Nashua Telegraph· 38 minutes agoWorld War II and D-Day veteran Jake Larson visits the grave of a soldier from his unit at the...
‘Everything you read about D-Day is a load of rubbish, I was there’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMs Scott – who was awarded the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest order of merit, in recognition of...
Radio operator Marie Scott provided a link to D-Day beaches at age 17
WJHL· 6 days agoLONDON (AP) — On D-Day, Marie Scott experienced British forces landing on the Normandy coast through...
Legendary D-Day veteran, 103, vows he 'would do it all again' to protect Britain
Daily Express· 16 hours agoHero D-Day soldier John Duke, 103, has vowed to do it "all again" to protect the country he loves as...
D-Day veteran recalls first learning of invasion as he made his way to beaches
Press Association News via AOL· 15 hours agoMitchell left the army in 1947 and returned to work in the lace trade. He now lives in Galston, East...