A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War Two memorial in Normandy, France. The crash occurred ...
Retelling of the events of D-Day, focused on the story of Sword Beach, drawn from the accounts of those who were there.
As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...
The memorial, a Churchill AVRE Mark IV tank, is on display at Sword Beach next to the Liberty monument. Local police said a French woman in her 40s has been arrested, she was found to be “well ...
Mer, where thousands of troops came ashore on D-Day on June 6, 1944. The tank on display was part of the 79th Armoured ...
A Universal Carrier fitted with deep wading screens and Dispatch Rider of the British 3rd Infantry Division navigate the streets of La Brèche d’Hermanville on the 6 June 1944. ‘SNL’ cold ...
He recounts the events at Sword Beach and Omaha, using the memories of those who were there. We hear extraordinary stories of heroism, self-sacrifice and determination from those who took part.
The 3rd Division was in the van of the D Day assault force Their task was to break through Hitlers Atlantic Wall on a stretch of Normandy beach codenamed SWORD Once ashore their problems were only ...