Tag Archives: DDay

Those who wish to pay their respects to the sacrifices made along that coastline in 1944 are doing so on borrowed time. As a result of coastal erosion, some of the beaches of D-Day are disappearing. CBC | World News

Reynolds Tomter and 59 other veterans flew from Dallas to Paris for the anniversary. Daily Express :: News Feed

The deception planners of Operation Fortitude created a fake Army Group made up of a fictional combination of more than a quarter of a million Allied soldiers. Daily Express :: News Feed

The number on parade grows smaller with each passing year but their purpose remains steadfastly clear: we will remember them. This extraordinary line-up of Second World War veterans spans every branch of the Armed Forces which helped secure freedom in Europe. Daily Express :: News Feed

The farmhouse was a critical and strategic part of the Allied invasion and commandeered by Major John Howard after the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry captured Pegasus Bridge at 12.16am on June 6, 1944, in one of the first acts of D-Day. Daily Express :: News Feed

The shortage of planes for a mass parachute drop to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day shows why more money needs to be spent on defence, Grant Shapps has said. Daily Express :: News Feed

A tour guide said the Creperie la Falaise in Vierville-sur-Mer refused to serve a group of troops – but the café has denied it. Daily Express :: News Feed

When a Black GI was sentenced to death in dubious circumstances ahead of D-Day, a furious outcry among ordinary Britons helped establish his innocence in one of the most moving episodes of the Second World War Daily Express :: News Feed

Oyez! Oyez! We WILL remember the Normandy lionhearts who laid down their lives on D-Day to secure our freedoms Daily Express :: News Feed

Walter Bigland was just 19 when he disembarked from a landing craft on Sword Beach with 45 Commando on June 6, 1944. Daily Express :: News Feed