Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

Don Sheppard, who has died aged 104, took part in the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6 1944 while serving as a Royal Engineer with the 51st Highland Division. Sheppard embarked in a convoy of ...

What happened on D-Day? The US troops were assigned to Utah beach at the base of the Cotentin Peninsular and Omaha Beach at the northern end of the Normandy coast. The British subsequently landed on ...

By midnight, the troops had secured their beachheads and moved further inland from Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword. However, not all the landings were successful; US forces suffered substantial losses at ...