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The royal, 77, sported a pair of eye-catching black leather gloves embellished with the red flowers, along with a a red wool ...
Tom Berry was a teenager when he joined the Royal Navy as a radio operator on the Tribal-class destroyer HMS Tartar.
The 320 men of the elite Canadian Black Watch were ready to storm Verrieres Ridge to break out of Normandy following the ...
As the last surviving destroyer built in Massachusetts and the last U.S. Navy-style Gearing-class destroyer left in the world ...
Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, will mark the end of World War II in Europe as the New York ...
The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The ...
It was the sacrifice of U.S. and European Allied soldiers during World War II that formed the bedrock of an alliance that has ...
the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beaches ahead of D-Day. During the rehearsal, a German fleet attacked, sinking two allied ships. Around 749 US ...
A SCHOOL in Normandy has been named in honour of a D-Day veteran who lived near Basingstoke ... England in a Dakota and for the first time I actually could see the invasion ships below – a sight that ...
Two days of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy began on Wednesday in Portsmouth - from where much of the 1944 invasion force sailed. More than 500 veterans ...
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Roger Muirhead, who has died a few days short of his 104th birthday, was awarded campaign medals for his Army service in North Africa, Italy, Normandy and Burma. Roger Hedderwick Muirhead was born ...