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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
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D-Day vets scramble to save an iconic landmark of the mighty military invasion
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
Read More »Defence Secretary scrambling to deploy ‘additional planes’ to mark D-Day anniversary
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
Read More »French D-day cafe that banned squaddies says it was a ‘misunderstanding’
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
Read More »Inside incredible case of D-Day hero whose death sentence was overturned
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
Read More »British town criers will proclaim the start of global D-Day commemorations
Oyez! Oyez! We WILL remember the Normandy lionhearts who laid down their lives on D-Day to secure our freedoms Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »One of Britain’s last surviving D-Day veterans dies aged 99
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
Read More »‘There are no words’ D-Day veteran overwhelmed as he’s recognised in New Year Honours list
D-DAY veteran Harry Billinge has been recognised in the New Year Honours list after his fundraising efforts made headlines around the world. After appearing on the show earlier in the year, the BBC Breakfast team visited Harry who revealed he was overwhelmed by the news and explained why fundraising for those soldiers who never returned home is so important to ...
Read More »‘I’ve heard a lot of b******t – you weren’t there!’ D-Day veteran SLAMS ignorant society
BBC BREAKFAST hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt welcomed D-Day veteran Harry Billinge to the show this morning to discuss his outstanding fundraising efforts for the Normandy Memorial Trust. During his appearance, the veteran hit out at those who discuss D-Day but have no real concept of what happened. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed
Read More »Urgent appeal for well wishers to attend British D-Day hero’s funeral who died 101
VETERANS are urging the public to attend the funeral of a British soldier who fought at D-Day after he passed away aged 101 with only a few surviving relatives. Daily Express :: News Feed
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