D-Day Challenge 2020
The D-Day Challenge is a unique event that commemorates the 1944 Allied invasion of occupied France on the anniversary of D-Day with a 22 mile walk or 44 mile ultra-run. The 2020 edition of the challenge will also feature an 88-mile cycle… In 2009 Lt Col. Mike...
SSAFA Presents HMS Westminster With Commemorative D-Day Book
Sir Andrew Gregory, CEO at SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, visited HMS Westminster to present Lt Commander, Kate Muir, and the Ship’s Company with SSAFA’s official D-Day 75 Publication… HMS Westminster’s Executive Officer Lt Commander Kate Muir and the Ship’s...
The D-Day “CLICKER” That Found Its Way Home…
Following a campaign to find one of the ‘Lost D-Day Clickers’ used by paratroopers ahead of the landings on June 5, 1944 , a family in Birmingham, just a stone’s throw away from the factory where it was made, have uncovered a genuine clicker in their father’s...
Marines Mark D-Day With ‘Forefathers’
Royal Marines displayed their modern amphibious warfare skills to veterans who were in action on D-Day 75 years ago in an emotional meeting at Poole Harbour in Dorset… In 1944, thousands of landing craft spilled allied troops onto the beaches of Normandy to start...
