“According to my dad, who died in 2013, the artist came to North Killingholme and presented the original painting to the crew ...
VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...
Winston Churchill said that Operation Overlord was 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult' ever undertaken. With nearly three million troops involved, it was an incredible feat of ...
After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.
"Of the million or so Allied participants in Operation Overlord, there are only a few thousand left alive today," he said.
The circular plaque, on the wall of Customs House, acknowledges the town's contribution during Operation Overlord in 1944. It replaces a commemorative stone, originally unveiled for the 40th ...