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Princess Royal pays tribute to D-Day veterans ahead of Normandy service
Press Association News via AOL· 2 hours agoBefore the RBL’s service began, Anne chatted to Don Jones, 99, who served in the Royal Navy ferrying...
Three Welsh veterans tell their D-Day stories
BBC via Yahoo News· 47 minutes agoAll were conscripted as teenagers, all spoke of their fear and all recall friends they fought side by side with. Able Seaman Don Jones had always wanted...
The D-Day poem and veteran speech that moved Queen Camilla to tears
Yahoo News UK· 6 hours agoRoyal Navy serviceman Bateman, who was stationed on warship HMS Erebus, paid tribute to those who...
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...
D-Day hero chokes back tears as he revisits the beach where his comrades fell
Daily Express· 5 hours agoThe Normandy warrior, 99, returned to where the gates to hell opened exactly 80 years ago today,...
Gaspee Days 2024: Rhode Islanders celebrate the burning of the HMS Gaspee. Here's how.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWARWICK – More than 250 years ago, Rhode Island colonists had a grudge against the HMS Gaspee and...
‘Papa Jake’ among the centenarian veterans sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
KNOP North Platte· 1 hour agoWorld War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark...
UK’s military leaders praise ‘courage, bravery, ingenuity’ of D-Day participants
Press Association News via AOL· 12 hours agoSpeaking at the national commemoration in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the First Sea Lord and head of the ...
‘Mixed feelings’ as D-Day veterans sail for 80th anniversary commemorations
Press Association News via AOL· 1 day agoDozens were on board Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel on Tuesday morning, many in good spirits,...
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.
