Aged 99, D-Day veteran Ken Cooke has outlived almost every comrade but refuses to be called a hero. To mark the 80th ...

A 99-year-old veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has spoken of his “relief” at learning ...

I trudged up the Normandy beaches with British Army veterans who had done the same—under fire—over half a century earlier.

Harry Arlin, 97, William DeGroat,102, and Abe Meltzer, 99, participated in a ceremony at The Museum of American Armor in Old ...

All my mates got killed. The battle I was in there were hundreds of casualties. Out of our platoon of 34 men there were only nine of us left. Article continues below “It was quite a traumatic thing.

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

The memory of blood dripping from trucks loaded with the mangled bodies of U.S. soldiers arriving at a nearby war cemetery ...

Good Morning Britain viewers were left reaching for the tissues after an emotional segment with Susanna Reid, who was seen ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...

Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, served in 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards during World War 2 and was in the thick of it as the allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy.

Saving Private Ryan was released in 1998 and has been highly praised by critics and viewers alike for its portrayal of the ...