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Veteran recalls being thrown from ship in explosion weeks after D-Day
Press Association News via AOL· 5 days agoA Royal Navy veteran has recalled being thrown from his ship after an explosion that killed 31...
Princess Royal pays tribute to D-Day veterans ahead of Normandy service
Press Association News via AOL· 13 hours agoBefore the RBL’s service began, Anne chatted to Don Jones, 99, who served in the Royal Navy ferrying...
Royal Navy veteran who survived Second World War freighter sinking dies aged 98
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoA Royal Navy veteran who survived the sinking of a freighter off France during the Second World War...
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...
A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoVER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi tyranny,...
D-Day 80: Royal Navy veteran dies days before anniversary
BBC News· 3 days agoLewis Curl served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1946 and was often deployed out of Portsmouth.
Local WWII veteran recalls details of D-Day 80 years later
WFMJ Youngstown· 11 hours agoGodfrey Anderson turns 100 years old in July and 80 years ago was a lead hand on one of the Royal ...
The D-Day poem and veteran speech that moved Queen Camilla to tears
Yahoo News UK· 1 day agoRoyal Navy serviceman Bateman, who was stationed on warship HMS Erebus, paid tribute to those who...
‘Mixed feelings’ as D-Day veterans sail for 80th anniversary commemorations
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoDozens were on board Brittany Ferries ship Mont St Michel on Tuesday morning, many in good spirits,...
Three Welsh veterans tell their D-Day stories
BBC via Yahoo News· 21 hours 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...