D-Day veteran dies one week short of 99th birthday
The war veteran died on Monday in Frimley Park Hospital, just one week short of his 99th birthday. You can follow BBC ...
Poole: D-Day blue plaque to be unveiled at Customs House
Poole was the third largest embarkation point for the Normandy landings, with thousands of troops and more than 300 vessels setting sail from ...
Steven Spielberg’s true intentions behind ‘Saving Private Ryan’
We're looking back at Steven Spielberg's war epic 'Saving Private Ryan' and how he turned the graphic violence of war into a ...
D-Day blue plaque installed, replacing fallen stone
The circular plaque, on the wall of Customs House, acknowledges the town's contribution during Operation Overlord in 1944. It ...
Poignant Standing With Giants installation to make a return visit to Fort Nelson en-route to France
The ''Installation Team'', along with 1,500 Giants on four articulated lorries, will be travelling to France on March 28 ...
The impressive Cambridgeshire Tudor mansion where spies trained during the Second World War
During the Second World War, part of the house and the stable block were occupied by the Czechoslovakian army and later ...
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Normandy Beaches: Walking in the Footsteps of D-Day Soldiers in France
Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...
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Communist China Envisioning Supersized Landing Ships To Put Troops and Vehicles Ashore in Any Invasion of Free China
A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.
Will China use this mega-barge to invade Taiwan? Huge landing craft that could disgorge 6,000 soldiers pictured for the first time
The barges have been in development since 2022 but have only appeared recently, Naval News reports. Now footage on Chinese ...
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I Corps Bolsters Retaking the Philippines in 1945
Eighty years ago, on Jan. 9, 1945, I Corps landed on the beaches of northern Luzon at Lingayen Gulf, playing a ...
Remains of Cincinnati, Iowa man killed in WWII identified
The remains of U.S. Army Pvt. James L. Harrington, a 21-year-old soldier from Cincinnati, Iowa, who was killed during World War II, have been identified nearly 80 years after his death, the Defense ...