FILE - British Normandy campaign veteran George Chandler of the Royal Navy speaks to the media and poses in the 'Map Room' which shows the large diagram of the D-Day ... to the beaches of northern ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only ...

Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

NORMANDY — As a student of military history, especially World War II, I had longed to perhaps someday visit Normandy, the ...

George was 19 when he was dispatched with the 59th flotilla on June 6, 1944, to escort the US army assault on Omaha and Utah ...

to escort the US army assault on Omaha and Utah beaches. Normandy veteran George Chandler, 99, posing for a photograph in the Map room at Southwick House, the nerve centre of D-Day operations.

EX-Royal Marines Colonel Al Carns became the first serving defence minister to march with veterans at the Cenotaph. Carns, 42 ...

Joining the ATS at 17 in 1941 with her parents’ consent, Mary Cholwill was working as a telephonist and plotter in Dorset ...

In July 1944, gunner Walter Chater — serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery in Normandy — learned that one of his four ...

British veterans give their account of the D-Day landings ... across the beach under heavy fire, avoiding snipers, shells and mines. Historian Dan Snow uses aerial photographs and maps to explain ...

FILE - British Normandy campaign veteran George Chandler of the Royal Navy speaks to the media and poses in the ‘Map Room’ which shows the large diagram of the D-Day Invasion ... escorting U.S. troops ...