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Ilkeston historian joins WW2 vehicle convoy for D-Day anniversary
BBC News· 13 hours agoA Derbyshire historian has travelled to Normandy in a vintage World War Two truck convoy to...
D-Day shipwrecks were a WW2 time capsule – now they are home to rich ocean-floor life
BBC News· 1 day agoAmong the 80-year-old sunken D-Day wrecks that line our coasts, burgeoning wildlife is thriving on...
How Saving Private Ryan's D-Day sequence changed the way we see war
BBC News· 7 hours agoFrom Henry Koster's romantic melodrama D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) through to Julius Avery's...
D-Day weatherman should receive award, says veteran's son
BBC News· 13 hours agoThe British weatherman who persuaded the supreme allied commander to postpone the D-Day landings...
'I thought, my God, they're ready for us. They know we've arrived' – How WW2's D-Day began with a...
BBC News· 3 days agoD-Day was a marvel of planning; it involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of Allied...
D-Day 80: Welsh veteran 'flabbergasted’ at Normandy
BBC News· 20 hours agoBill Davies, 101, landed at Arromanches in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
D-Day: Exbury House Wrens sculpture unveiled
BBC News· 2 days agoThe piece, called The Lady of the South, has been revealed on the Exbury Estate in the New Forest, Hampshire, ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day....
Poppy wreath from Cornwall marks D-Day landings
BBC News· 1 day agoA hospital in Cornwall said it helped send a unique poppy wreath on a "special journey" to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. Camborne Redruth...
Idris Elba helps uncover the WWII soldiers of color who never got their due | Chattanooga Times Free...
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 3 days ago"That part of my family's history has been erased somewhat," says Elba. More than 8 million people...
Red Arrows to take to the skies for English Riviera Airshow 2024
BBC News· 6 days agoThe RAF Red Arrows are expected to give an aerial display on Saturday while RAF Typhoon jets and D-...