Mayor of Normandy village of Merville to deliver letter of dismay that Prince Charles is not visiting site of terrible D-Day battle that cost hundreds of British lives An aircraft at the Merville ...

Corporal James McGuinness MM, Sergeant Patrick Joseph McGuinness, Private Hugh McGuinness, Frances McAlone (née McGuinness), John Henry McGuinness, Catherine McGuinness, Sergeant Patrick McGeevor MM, ...

In northern France, a group of volunteers has spent months renovating the command post of the Merville gun battery – one of the main defences built by the Germans and attacked by British paratroopers ...

The Normandy village of Merville, where British parachutists fought an epic battle in 1944, is in uproar over the perceived snub and mayor Olivier Paz intends to deliver a letter of protest to Charles ...

Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway, who died on Sunday aged 92, led the 9th Parachute Battalion in operations on D-Day and was awarded the DSO. The 9th Battalion, part of 3rd Parachute Brigade, was ...

This picture taken on May 7 shows people walking past a restored Douglas C-47 plane at the WWII artillery battery constructed by the Wehrmacht, the German army of the Nazi period, in ...