Writing for the Sunday Mirror, Luke Pollard revealed he had visited the Islands this week. It comes as the King prepares to ...

At Gold Beach in Arromanches ... The piece was also to remember a lone piper who played in the Normandy landings and was never shot at. Since 1986, The Independent has campaigned for what we ...

to the British Normandy Museum. The figures overlook Gold Beach, one of the key landing points. They were transported via Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire and Fort Nelson, near Fareham in Hampshire.

One of the oldest surviving veterans of the Second World War tells MARCO GIANNANGELI and GARY BRIDSON-DALEY of his dismay at ...

On Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty rates were around 80% lower. Troops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach The fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day ...

Richard Aldred, 99, served as a tank driver and landed on Gold Beach in Normandy the day after D-Day. His tank was blown up and he took cover under it on the side of the road alongside his ...

Back in 1944, Mervyn made a long, stormy journey across the English Channel on a boat before landing on 'Gold Beach' - a section of beach in Normandy - along with thousands of other soldiers ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Panzer Campaigns: Normandy '44 Gold Normandy '44 is an operational ... and air forces stood poised to strike at the German beach fortifications and ...

Later, President Emmanuel Macron, President Donald Trump and PM Theresa May will attend events along the 80km stretch of Normandy coast ... soldier landed on Gold Beach. Later, French President ...

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches ... groups commemorating the anniversary. Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want to ...