Sunday 5 March 2017 08:35, UK An estimated 21,000 British lost their lives in the Normandy landings on 6 June, 1944 Why you can trust Sky News ...

As world leaders and veterans meet in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the 6 June 1944 D-Day landings, a series of events are taking place in An Fód Dubh, Co Mayo to remember the invasion.

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

It took 80 days to liberate Normandy. Exact figures for allied fatalities on D-Day itself are not available but the latest estimate puts the toll at 4,400.

At the Normandy landing, there was also the father of Leo XIV. The new Pope, the first of American origin (although he grew up in Peru), is the son of one of the 156,000 American, British, ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

This file photograph taken on June 6, 1944, shows Allied forces soldiers during the D-Day landing operations in Normandy, north-western France.

A new project is set to begin which explores Hampshire's D-Day marshalling camps which played a vital role in the lead up to ...

Royal Navy D-Day veteran John Dennett, 101, at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer to mark the 81st anniversary of the landings (Gareth Fuller/PA) ...

THE preparations for the Normandy landing are well in train, and exactly like 65 years ago, they are praying for good weather. Not that Rosanna Davison is exactly planning to conquer Europe (she ...

It might have been the longest wait but today 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancée in Normandy, just days after being honoured on the 80th ...