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.

A bunker on the Atlantic Wall (Hitler’s vast coastal defences)Credit: Getty It takes in Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno ... beach to clifftop and back again, through quiet villages to the sobering ...

It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day ...

Evansville built the ships that won World War II. Now one of them guards the city’s riverfront. LST-325 spent 75 years ...

BURLINGTON, Ontario, April 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Juno Beach Centre (JBC), Canada’s Second World War museum and memorial in Normandy, France, announces the launch of a commemorative postcard ...

Juno Beach Centre Association BURLINGTON, Ontario, April 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Juno Beach Centre (JBC), Canada’s Second World War museum and memorial in Normandy, France, announces ...

BURLINGTON, Ontario, April 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Juno Beach Centre (JBC), Canada’s Second World War museum and memorial in Normandy, France, announces the launch of a commemorative ...

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Peter Kent, from Westminster, served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Adventurer and took part in the Normandy landings ... so many dead bodies on the beach – it was just a big waste of life.