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.

Children at a primary school in Leicester have said they were "amazed" to receive a letter from a living World War Two ...

The invasion date was initially set for 5 June. But the army's Chief Meteorologist, Group Captain James Stagg spotted a ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place ... Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches.

Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, is among more than 30 Second World War veterans attending celebrations in ...

Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid was left fighting back tears during an emotional interview with a World War II veteran ...

Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...

On the day he would graduate from Clinton High School, Henry Langrehr was preparing to jump to the beaches of Normandy.

The route took me from beach to clifftop and back again, through quiet villages to the sobering Normandy American Cemetery, where 9,000 US soldiers are buried. The next morning, I continued ...