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Thousands of people joined army veterans in Normandy on Friday to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings, in which over 4,000 Allied troops were killed.

Sir Winston Churchill became increasingly frustrated Britain had not been able to produce enough penicillin in preparation for the Normandy landings.

Mervyn Kersh arrived in Normandy aged 19, three days after the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944, acting for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

One of the last surviving French veterans of the June 1944 D-Day landings has died aged 105, only weeks after he helped welcome US President Joe Biden to Paris for the 80th anniversary of the amphibious assault, the presidency said Tuesday.

US Army veteran Harold Terens married Jeanne Swerlin on 80th anniversary of Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France

‘If he was allowed to leave at exactly 3.05pm he would be leaving at 3.05pm’, former Royal Marine says

For civilians in Normandy, the D-Day invasion was both a triumph and a tragedy. Thousands were killed in bombings that accompanied the Allied landings, and many more fled their homes. While for decades commemorations focused on military feats, more attention is finally being paid to ordinary people who saw the…

Former prisoner of war Ken Hay, 98, has criticised the Prime Minister for leaving a D-Day commemoration in Normandy early

World leaders gathered in Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, one of the largest military operations in history. At the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer and at Omaha Beach, the few hundred veterans who survived that fatal day were honoured for their bravery as crowds of…