A D-Day veteran wept on the Normandy beach where ... aged between 99 and 100, walked on Sword Beach alongside serving military personnel, after arriving in France with the Royal British Legion ...
Ann Ansell and her son Michael have visited the graves of unknown sailors at Bayeux A woman has travelled to Normandy with her son to see for herself the beaches where her father landed on D-Day.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...