ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after ...
A band of volunteers has restored a Second World War amphibious vehicle to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Farmer Graham Smitheringale, 51, described the six-wheeled DUKW as a “lorry that swims” ...
It wasn't long after coming through victorious in the biggest conflict of all time — World War II — that the Soviet Union and the United States ceased being allies and instead engaged in a ...
80 years on, nobody is likely to forget the human cost of the D-Day landings. More than 4,000 allied soldiers were killed on the day itself, an indication of how intense the combat was on the Normandy ...