Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prevost Snr. was born on July 28, ...

The village, part of 'the Scottish Riviera', was a key site ahead of one of the most infamous World War II moments.

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

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.

On the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, echoes of tyrannies past shake a continent that is trying to find its ...

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

Furthermore, the area's significant tidal range, approximately 24 feet, and its beach characteristics closely resembled the conditions anticipated on the Normandy landing beaches. Roy Taylor ...

Peter Kent reflects on the horrors of Normandy as leaders and young people share tributes outside Westminster Abbey.