This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of ...

Roy Cadman, who has died aged 102, was wounded and taken prisoner during the invasion of Sicily while serving with the Commandos; he escaped, rejoined his unit and subsequently took part in the ...

OUISTREHAM France (Reuters) - When Leon Gautier landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, as one of the first wave of French commandos to set foot on Normandy soil, the last thing ...

SWORD BEACH, France (Reuters) - Leon Gautier landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, one of the first wave of French commandos to storm the Normandy beachfront defended by ...

Brigadier Lord Lovat, tall, tough, handsome leader of British Commando troops, was back in England last week, a bit bunged up from the Normandy fighting, and correspondents at last could tell the ...