Trooping The Colour Parade Celebrates The Queen's Official Birthday
The Queen's official birthday is being marked with the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in Horse Guards Parade.
The Queen's official birthday is being marked with the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in Horse Guards Parade.
Former SAS serviceman Bear Grylls is among those on the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
The US National D-Day Memorial has held a week of events to mark the sacrifice of all the Allied forces.
140 aircraft and 4,000 troops from nine countries took part.
George Simms is one of only two surviving members of 41 Royal Marines Commando unit who landed on 'Queen White' Beach.
Thousands of Allied airborne troops were dropped behind enemy lines only to be surrounded and cut off.
An American guided-missile cruiser and a Russian destroyer came within 165ft of each other in the East China Sea.
The international group of ships are training together for two months.
The vandalism was discovered by some locals on Thursday, the D-Day anniversary itself.
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith made the comments during commemoration events in Normandy.
The light cruiser also treated the wounded in its support of the allied invasion.
The invasion established a crucial second front in liberating Europe from the Nazis and led to victory for the allies.
The Prime Minister was joined by the French President at a ceremony marking the creation of the British Normandy Memorial.
Bayeux was the first major place to be liberated after the Allied forces invasion.
Gustav flew 150 miles across the Channel with the first news that the Normandy landings had begun.
The event commemorated D-Day veterans on the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings.