Before the D-Day landings, the Allies waged a vast war of deception. Inflatable tanks, false radio traffic, and a Spanish ...

D-Day veteran who escorted allied troops landing in Normandy dies aged 101 - Francis ‘Jim’ Grant joined the Royal Marines aged 18 in 1943 and served until 1946, patrolling beaches and escorting allied ...

A week after the D-Day landings on Normandy, in a small French village, disaster struck the Allies. A lone commander of a ...

In response, the Navy began forming specialized demolition teams in 1942. These early units were created from experienced ...

A Royal Marine veteran who escorted allied troops landing in Normandy on D-Day has died aged 101. Francis “Jim” Grant, from Stowmarket in Suffolk, manned one of two anti-aircraft guns fitted to his ...

The 1,000-plus publicans who have recently banned Labour MPs from their premises might take small comfort from the fact that the alehouse has been a political backdrop for at least half a millennium.