D-day

Why US President Biden is going to Aisne this weekend

‘We’re delighted that an American president is coming here’ says a resident near the war memorial site

Key quotes from King Charles, Macron and Biden at D-Day commemorations

Heads of states and veterans gathered in Normandy to pay their respects for the sacrifices made on D-Day 80 years ago

PHOTOS: 48 American veterans land in France for D-Day commemorations

They were welcomed by school children and the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, Brigitte Macron

Tributes made as last known Royal Navy Dunkirk veteran dies

Lawrence Churcher died just days before his 103rd birthday

Last survivor of French D-Day commando unit dies aged 100

Léon Gautier’s unit was among the first wave of liberators on June 6, 1944

Make the 80th anniversary of D-Day a national holiday, urges French MP

Next year is one of the last major anniversaries when World War II veterans will likely still be alive and able to pass on their stories to children

Career change in France: ‘I never tire of talking about World War Two’

From graphic designer to D-Day tour business - we speak to a Dutch woman who turned her passion for history into a new life

French man finds bracelet of American WWII soldier in a field

The bracelet has been loaned to D-Day Experience, an immersive museum that already had some of the soldier’s possessions in its collection

New film to honour Canadian D-Day soldiers who died freeing French

Many Canadian soldiers lost their lives on June 6, 1944. Experts say the film will pay tribute to the role they played in the landings

D-Day: French archaeologists launch research ahead of 78th anniversary

The dig at a manor house four kilometres from the infamous Utah Beach is expected to reveal more details about the behaviour of US soldiers there

British soldiers killed in D-Day landings finally get fitting memorial

The first British memorial to all the soldiers who died in Normandy officially opens on June 6 in France, the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings

French veterans against ‘immersive’ D-Day tourism project

French veterans have come out against a planned project to launch an “immersive” tourist experience in France, that would recreate the 1944 Normandy embarkment and battle.

Church bells to ring around world to mark D-Day

Bells will be rung around the world tomorrow to mark the 76th anniversary of D-Day in an initiative started by history enthusiasts from France.

D-day hero Frank has died aged 95

One of the last D-Day heroes, Frank Mouqué, died aged 95 on Saturday.

Armentières still remembered by D-Day hero

Chelsea Pensioner and former bomb disposal corporal Frank Mouqué, 94, is one of the few surviving British D-Day veterans who will honour their fallen comrades in Normandy on this month’s 75th anniversary.

French ‘D-Day Land’ could be a fitting tribute

Memorial tourism is one of France’s biggest industries, even though it is inevitably centred on groups of people who died in horrific circumstances.

Macron marks France's 'second D-Day' in Provence

Southern invasion of France started in the evening of August 14, 1944, two months after the Normandy landings

Royal welcome for our Frank

Chelsea Pensioner Frank Mouqué made the most of what could be his final trip to France to commemorate D-Day (see more: Armentières still remembered by D-Day hero)

‘Banksy’ war art is actually by French brasserie owner

A piece of street art found near the D-Day beaches in Normandy - which had been rumoured to be a Banksy - has been revealed as the work of a local brasserie owner.

Wartime lovers who met before D-Day reunited in France

A French woman and an American World War Two veteran who first fell in love in France in 1944 have been reunited 75 years after they last met.

Memorial will be symbol of links between UK and France

President Macron joined British Prime Minister Theresa May this morning for a private ceremony with veterans to lay the first stone in the first permanent memorial to the 22,442 servicepeople who died under British command in the D-Day landings and Battle of Normandy.

Letter shows D-Day training plans of Nazis in Normandy

Firing exercises were planned on the Normandy coast on the day of the Allies' invasion of Europe

US artist's wartime works on display in France

Norman Rockwell's famous Four Freedoms quartet among the works in exhibition in Normandy

D-Day and 1945 film by Oscar winner now in colour

A film created by an American soldier and Academy Award-winning director who filmed at the Normandy Landings of 1944 and a Nazi concentration camp is now available in colour, 75 years later.

Poignant event may be last for many old soldiers

Professional photographer Sabina Lorkin has covered several of the D-Day commemoration events in Normandy but fears this will be the last where veterans will take part.

Parachute drop is highlight of series of events

This year’s commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy are expected to be the last ‘big anniversary’ for many of the old soldiers who were there in 1944.

Britain’s D-Day dead get their own memorial

The centrepiece sculpture for the first permanent memorial to the 22,442 British men who died in the D-Day landings and Battle of Normandy will be unveiled near Arromanches on the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6.

Hermione’s new crew heads for the Channel

Dozens of new recruits will take to sea this month on the first leg of a three-month journey to sail the replica frigate Hermione to Normandy for the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day.

Obstacle course is D-day reminder

Memorial to wartime bomber crews unveiled

Mayor honours 11 air crew killed as British and American planes shot down