The Serapis was at the front of the D-Day convoy arriving at Sword beach at 7.30am on D-Day and continued to fire on German positions along the coast for 11 days. The 99-year-old from Kent ...

I had the war in my ears' Further to the east, Percival Chafer had reached Sword beach, another of the landing sites on the Normandy coast. At 104, he is the oldest surviving D-Day veteran ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

Richards parachuted near to Sword Beach and fought, before setting to work painting Britain's youngest official war artist, who fought on D-Day before painting the aftermath, has been celebrated ...

Winning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings. videoWinning D-Day - The Sword Beach landings Veterans recall what it was like to be part of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach, and the move inland to ...