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.

It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

The events of VE Day feel distant today, but our lives are still shaped by the defeat of totalitarianism May 8, 1945 was a ...

“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

The 100-year-old tunnels were cleared of sand, debris and stalactites and converted into an underground munitions factory.

As the nation celebrates the eightieth anniversary this week of the end of the war in Europe, Matthew Pickhaver reminds us of ...

Andrew gave a brief history on the Canal from its inception at Bude and about the bringing of the canal across to North ...

Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the ... as the 'Desert Rats' - which took part in the D-Day landings and subsequent advance across France.

Alan Kennett on the moment he ran into his Dad after 6 years apart during the D-Day landings. A 100-year-old RAF veteran who is leading the VE Day processions today (May 5) shares how he reunited ...

Furthermore, the area's significant tidal range, approximately 24 feet, and its beach characteristics closely resembled the conditions anticipated on the Normandy landing ... on D-Day, the Germans ...