VER-SUR-MER, France — King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442 British troops who died in the Battle of Normandy. “Eighty years ago on D-Day, the 6th of June 1944, our nation — and those which stood alongside it — faced what my grandfather, King George VI, described as the supreme test,” he said. “How …
LONDON — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didn’t come home. Evacuate.” Gladden didn’t lose his leg, but he spent the next three …
An impressive 1,475 statues have filled the landscape beside a D-Day memorial overlooking France's Golden Beach in honour of each of the servicemen who fell during the historic mission. The Standing with Giants silhouettes are part of the For Your Tomorrow installation at the British Normandy Memorial, in Ver-Sur-Mer, France The staggering number of silhouettes represents the number of fatalities …
