More Than Half Of Public Do Not Know What D-Day Is, Survey Shows
When asked who the Allied Forces fighting on D-Day were, only 57% of people correctly chose Germany from a list of suggested enemies.
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D-Day: Tour Company Offers Chance To Walk In Heroes' Footsteps On The Battlefields
Visit, Understand, Never Forget - tours to take you from the pages of history to the places where the battles took place
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D-Day Former Spitfire Crews Reunited With D-Day Aircraft
The MJ772 has only recently been restored and is set to play a key role in June's D-Day 75 commemorations.
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D-Day 'Hobart's Funnies': Eccentric Officer's Improvised D-Day Weapons Shown In New Exhibition
Major General Percy Hobart commanded the 11th Armoured Division and later the 79th Armoured Division.
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News 'The Dam Busters' Among Film Posters Up For Auction
The poster for 1955 film is expected to fetch £8,000 in the sale.
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WWII Air Power: From Dunkirk to D-Day
What role did air power play during the Second World War?
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Aircraft Ride The Tiger Moth: What It's Like To Fly In The 1930s Aircraft
Members of the public can now take a flight in a 1930s British biplane.
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WWII Homes Evacuated After Suspected WWII Bomb Found In Kingston Upon Thames
A cordon remains in place after the device was discovered on Thursday.
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Northern Ireland Gibraltar: How Northern Ireland Took In Evacuees From The Rock In World War Two
World War Two evacuation camps: Some evacuees married in them. Some children were born in them.
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D-Day 'Shores Of Normandy': D-Day Veteran Releases Charity Single For 75th Anniversary
Jim Radford was 15 years old when he served with the Merchant Navy on D-Day.
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D-Day Defence Minister Meets D-Day Veterans At Chelsea Flower Show
Tobias Ellwood was shown around the D-Day 75 Garden by a group of Normandy veterans.
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D-Day 'That's All Brother': Spearhead Of US D-Day Invasion Rescued From Scrapyard
The C-47 aircraft led sky transporter squadrons dropping paratroopers across Normandy 75 years ago.
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USA Experts Work To Stop Oil Leak From British WWII Tanker
The Coimbra was carrying more than two million gallons of oil when she was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the US coast in 1942.
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D-Day D-Day Revisited: Chelsea Flower Show Garden Honours Normandy Veterans
A garden exhibited at the Royal Hospital Chelsea during this year’s Flower Show will celebrate D-Day veterans.
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Navy WWII German Sea Mine Caught In Solent Fishing Net Detonated
Bomb disposal experts from the Royal Navy were called in to detonate the device.
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D-Day Portsmouth Honours D-Day And Normandy Heroes
The city is honouring the men from the city who died during D-Day and the wider Normandy campaign through a series of plaques.
