Like the rest of the D-Day force, the Rangers prepared ... famous for its grueling hill runs and use of live ammunition, spent weeks practicing amphibious landings along the English coastline ...

The King has met with one of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings. Jim Glennie - now 99 - was an 18-year-old soldier when he took part in Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944 to liberate ...

air and naval operation in history - the D Day landings. Day two of state visit in pictures Day one of state visit in pictures Here are pictures of some of the events on Wednesday. Photos are ...

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. Start Over Share Slideshow Published on ...

It does live in history. Freedom was restored to ... Honouring the British servicemen who fell in the D-Day landings. But on 6th June the great majority of people will, I believe, speak with ...

He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches. It was not a nice thing - not a nice thing at all. It was carnage.' ...

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will attend ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’, an evening of music-led, multi-generational storytelling, reflecting on the Second World War at ...

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 ...