D-Day

PhD student Rosemary Giles reports on this week's ceremonies to commemorate the 1944 landing on Juno Beach.

The parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Dunlop Street East at Mulcaster Street and head to the Five Points intersection, halting in front of the Cenotaph in ...

Around 160000 Allied troops landed on the beaches on June 6, 1944, in what's now known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… 100-year-old D-Day veteran reflects on war. Richard Rohmer is not sentimental when he says, matter-of- ...

PhD student Rosemary Giles reports on this week's ceremonies to commemorate the 1944 landing on Juno Beach.

June 6 marks the anniversary of Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy in France, in the fight against Germany.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to Normandy, France, to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Around 160,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches ...

A ceremony will mark the occasion at the cenotaph outside Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital on Thursday at 1 p.m.. "It's important to remember and mark D-Day, ...

TORONTO - Richard Rohmer is not sentimental when he says, matter-of-factly, that this may be his last D-Day an...

Richard Rohmer is not sentimental when he says, matter-of-factly, that this may be his last D-Day anniversary trip to France. At 100 years old, the Second.

Candles are lit on each tombstone of the Commonwealth war cemetery of Banneville-La-Campagne, Normandy, France, during a ceremony as part of the 80th ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy was a major turning point in World War II. This is how it happened.

Born and raised in Brantford, Pettit could return to the safety of Canada after becoming a much-decorated squadron leader with an impressive war record. Or, he ...

Cornwall's Les Foulds, 104, remembered what it was like to be in Britain on June 6, 1944, watching planes fly overhead as part of D-Day.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to France, to mark the 80th anniversary.

Reenactors and world leaders converge this week for World War II commemorations in Normandy, where Ukraine looms large.

A Prince Edward Island man is in France this week to trace the steps of a company of Island soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion 80 years ago.

June 6 marks the anniversary of Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy in France, in the fight against Germany.

At 100 years old, the Second World War veteran says this 80th anniversary is his last decennial commemoration, and perhaps the last time he makes the trip ...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his way to Normandy, France, to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Around 160,000 Allied troops landed on the ...

A Windsor-based military captain is overseas to demonstrate how soldiers dropped from parachutes to fight in the D-Day invasion 80 years ago.

By Lisa Van Dusen. June 5, 2024. Looking back at June 6th, 1944 from 80 years' distance, D-Day was many things — a legendary logistical feat, ...

Canadian soldiers guard German prisoners captured on the Normandy beachhead. Department of National Defence/National Archives of Canada photos. NORMANDY – June ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Normandy Wednesday, one day ahead of the 80th anniversary of Canadian troops storming Juno Beach in what ...

He was speaking in Portsmouth, one of the key departure points for the Normandy landings in June 1944. The King hailed the "courage, resilience and solidarity" ...

Alan Chudnovsky's late father, Hyman Chudnovsky, served in the Second World War with the Duke of York Royal Canadian Hussars. Alan and his family recently ...

Eighty years ago, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy.

American troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Robert F. Sargent/Getty Images. The D ...

Tell fourteen the Queen's terrace is wide,” said the BBC presenter over radio airwaves on June 1, 1944. To most listeners in occupied France, ...

He paid tribute to the troops from the UK, the US, Canada, France and other places. Britain's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, called it "the most ...

On the evening of June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast a prayer for the Nation. At the time, war was raging in Europe, ...

In the May 28 edition of Beach Metro Community News there's a story by one of our Malvern Collegiate co-op students about D-Day. Writer Jack Skinner mentions I ...

The funeral for Peter Godwin Chance, who died April 9 at 103, drew hundreds to the cathedral and a Royal Canadian Legion celebration that followed.

A few days before US President Joe Biden arrived on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a smaller war erupted on GZERO's ...

UTAH BEACH, France (AP) — As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it's rising again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ...

The annual gathering of western leaders in Normandy is always steeped in symbolism — an occasion for the nations whose troops stormed these beaches eight ...

UTAH BEACH, France (AP) - As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it's rising again over Normandy beaches whe...

President Joe Biden will join other world leaders to commemorate the Normandy landings, when Allied forces' surprise attack helped liberate Europe from Nazi ...

S'il salue le travail des "reconstitueurs" pour le travail de mémoire, Jean Quétier les appelle aussi à respecter les règles.

Watch and follow live as events take place across northern France and the UK to remember the Normandy landings.

Eighty years ago today, over 14000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach as part of the largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history.

Eighty years ago as the Allied invasion of western Europe began off the shores of Normandy, France, and eventually freed the continent of Adolf Hitler's ...

The sun was shining on the beaches of Normandy Thursday morning as a Canadian ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day got underway in ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Gabriel Attal and Prince William are among dignitaries visiting Juno Beach, where flags bearing the maple leaf ...

A 102-year-old Winnipeg veteran remembers landing on the shores of Juno Beach, more than 80 years ago on D-Day.

This year's commemoration of the key turning point in WWII carries special resonance with war still raging in Ukraine.

'We did our duty, proudly and with honour,' local writer notes his father-in-law Allan Maxwell told him of his squadron's air raids over Europe.

Collingwood resident Lt.-Gen (Hon.) Richard Rohmer, a D-Day veteran, is in Normandy on Juno Beach this morning to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

In France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied forces' pivotal D-Day landings in Normandy, President Biden honors WWII troops who freed Europe ...

While the U.S. president's speech was directed at a global audience, it comes against the backdrop of a fierce domestic political battle with Donald Trump.

PhD student Rosemary Giles reports on this week's ceremonies to commemorate the 1944 landing on Juno Beach. 'As a historian whose research focus is Canada ...

Parmi les 13 000 civils qui trouvèrent la mort en Basse-Normandie dans le Débarquement, le diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux met en lumière 138 religieuses, prêtres ...

Carl Howard Cartledge, Jr., Intelligence and Reconnaissance Section, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne: I was in plane number 44 on the 5th row.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his French counterpart Gabriel Attal and Prince William were among dignitaries visiting Juno Beach to commemorate the 80th ...

US President Joe Biden has drawn parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and World War Two, in a speech commemorating the 80th anniversary of the ...

CNN's Melissa Bell reports from an amphibious vehicle in Normandy as France marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Eighty years ago today, over 14000 Canadians stormed Juno Beach as part of the largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history.

Normandy American Cemetery Colleville-sur-Mer, France. 2:01 P.M. CEST THE PRESIDENT: The hour had nearly come. Monday, June 5th, 1944.

King Charles and the Prince of Wales joined world leaders and veterans at a series of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

World War II veterans from US, UK and Canada are in Normandy to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings.