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 ...
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder we join the 2024 Commando March in Normandy, retracing the route taken by British Commandos on D-Day from Sword Beach to the old headquarters at Amfreville. Alongside ...
The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...
Five years into World War II, the Allies were squeezing the Nazis from two sides. In Western Europe, Allied forces had managed to slow Adolf Hitler's ruthless expansion across the continent. Meanwhile ...
They traveled from as far as Las Vegas and for some, it will be a first visit. From Alabama to Nevada, they are the modest heroes who did something extraordinary nearly 75 years ago-- fighting on ...