A 99-year-old D-Day veteran has recalled how he first learned he was taking part in the invasion as he was making his way across the Channel to join forces that had already landed at Normandy.

Image caption, CRAB TANK: The exits to the Normandy beaches were littered with ... Delivering an invasion force of the scale of D-Day would require a huge harbour. Capturing one would be far ...

A D-Day veteran has returned to the Normandy beaches for what he has said will be the "last time", 80 years on from his role in the biggest seaborne invasion in history. On 6 June 1944 ...

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Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy ... the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion’s 80th anniversary.

D-Day veterans Bernard Morgan (left), 100, and Jack Mortimer, 100, travelled to Normandy ... invasion further along the coast. The surprise element helped British troops establish a foothold on a ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... advance upon the beaches of France in ...

Operation Overlord, the code name for the D-Day invasion, involved transporting ... faced incredible challenges upon landing ...

All along the Normandy coastline ... landed first early on D-Day to secure roads, bridges and other strategic points inland of the invasion beaches and destroy gun emplacements that raked ...

Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's largest screens for the first time. Audiences of all ages will discover from a new ...

Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a ... Learn more on the cemetery's website. Normandy American D-Day Beaches Full Day Tour from Bayeux (1474 reviews) ...