Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in Naval News highlighting the appearance of between three and five new ...
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
Ken Cooke was conscripted into the 7th Battalion, Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) in 1943 A D-Day veteran ... of the invasion force landing on what was known as Gold Beach, and has gone back ...
DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...
The so-called Team Band of Brothers are running and hiking the beaches in Normany in tribute ... the Normandy beaches to commemorate the D-Day landings. The group will travel up to 44 miles ...
The extraordinary heroism of a Royal Air Force doctor who saved the lives of scores of Allied soldiers landing on D-Day’s bloodiest beach can now ... s most infamous beaches has received little ...
It was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches. D-day is simply ... one American unit landing in the first wave, lost 90% of its men. On Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty ...
In collaboration with the Utah Beach Landing Museum ... includes a landing map of the different Normandy beaches where Allied troops landed on D-Day. On the back of the polished stainless steel ...
June 6, 2009 sees the 65th anniversary of the D-Day Landings and to mark this occasion ... ever assembled with the tour taking in the landing beaches, battlegrounds, military cemeteries and ...
Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...