Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That ...
At 22.15 on the evening of Jun. 5 1944, the first engine on the first plane spluttered into life announcing the biggest airborne operation ever undertaken: delayed by 24 hours due to poor weather ...
AS THE Normandy invasion began, Frank Agoglia crash-landed in a glider behind German lines. “I was there. There was no turning back,” said Agoglia, now 90, a retired NYPD officer who grew up in Park ...
A military museum is appealing a wider range of D-Day stories and childhood memories from 1944. The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO) in Woodstock will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day by ...
Horsa drops in at Arnhem DUMFRIES and Galloway Aviation Museum dropped in at the 65th anniversary of the WW2 1944 Arnhem Drop with the only remaining original part of an Airspeed AS 51 Horsa ...
When the editor called across the newsroom for a volunteer to join British troops on a top-secret mission, a young reporter eagerly raised his hand. Scots-born Ian Fyfe, 25, could guess what was ...