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It was only by standing on Normandy’s beaches that I began to understand the scale and the horror of what happened here 80 years ago.Both in terms o

One last saluteIN came the heroes — some in wheelchairs, some still walking unaided — to take their final salute for changing the course of histor

THE clapping went on for seven long minutes but none of the 2,000 guests stood in the sun above Gold Beach begrudged a single second.They would have s

Heroes we must never forgetTHEY are the bravest of the brave from throughout Britain’s long history. Today we have one final chance to pay them trib

FRANCE has been humiliated after activists stole flags and scrawled anti-Macron graffiti across a town ahead of D-Day commemorations.Disaster unfolded

EMOTIONAL King Charles told D-Day heroes and their families that the nation was "eternally in their debt" as he joined a tearful Queen Camilla at toda

LIKE ghosts, they stand above the beaches where they fell.Exactly 1,475 soldiers, sailors and airmen under British command died on D-Day, June 6, 1944

WITH the Normandy coast in the background, two 98-year-old veterans hurled a wreath into the sea where thousands of their comrades died 80 years ago.A

IT will be 80 years on Thursday since veteran Don Sheppard landed on a beach in northern France as part of the largest ever land and sea invasion.Yet

EIGHTY years ago they took part in the World War Two campaign that opened the path to peace and freedom in Europe.In the early summer of 1944, 450,000

WAR veteran Dorothea Barron got into a Spitfire cockpit today at the age of 99 as part of the countdown to D-Day 80.The former Women’s Royal Naval S

ROYAL Marines commandos ­re-enact a daring World War Two raid in Cornwall — as beach-­lovers lark about with a football.Men from 47 Commando storm

THE design of a newly minted 50p coin marking 80 years since the D-Day landings on June 6 is etched on to the invasion’s Gold Beach.Sand artist Jeha

THE RAF is scrambling to find aircraft for Paras to jump from for D-Day 80th commemorations.Hundreds of British troops are set to take to the skies ov

PLANS to drop British soldiers over France to mark D-Day’s 80th anniversary have been scaled back because of a lack of planes.The Parachute Regiment

THE King will make his first trip abroad since his cancer diagnosis to stand alongside World War II veterans in France and mark 80 years since D-Day -

THE King has given his clearest indication yet he will be on the Normandy beaches to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.He has taken over patronage of

A TOUR guide has called a café owner an “utter disgrace” for allegedly refusing to serve soldiers “as they are English”.Eugenie Brooks said h

IN the drawing room of a country house near Portsmouth a petite French woman is dwarfed by a 14ft-high map.Madame Arlette Gondree, 84, is studying a t

A WAR hero who ignored orders during the D-Day landings to save seven lives has died aged 99.Royal Marines Cpl Jack Quinn was coxswain on a landing cr

THE last surviving member of the original SAS – who navigated the deserts of North Africa by the stars – died yesterday aged 103.Major Mike Sadler

RED remembrance poppies which raise £40million a year for Britain’s military veterans have turned green — by going plastic-free.For the first tim

ONE of Britain's last D-Day veterans who was in one of the first waves of the assault on the Normandy beaches has died aged 100.Joe Cattini landed on