This is another one of those things happening since, well, basically the election that isn’t just a surprising and encouraging reversal of recent trends. It’s frickin’ downright gobsmacking how fast the 180° turn and acceleration in the opposite direction took off. When last we saw our demoralized and struggling United States Army, they were being...
Jake Wallace BBC News, South West Royal Navy This is the first joint amphibious operation since 2018 An amphibious warfare exercise involving UK and French troops is taking place on a Devon beach that was used to train soldiers for D-Day. Exercise Catamaran is a two-week training operation spilt between North Devon and the Bay...
Getty Images Prime Minister Winston Churchill expressed frustration over slow progress securing antibiotic penicillin Winston Churchill’s push to obtain penicillin in time to treat casualties expected from D-Day has come to light in documents seen by BBC News. Official papers unearthed by the National Archives reveal the prime minister’s frustration and concern over slow progress...
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the first time both meet since Merz was elected on 6 May. Numerous topics were mentioned in their first bilateral meeting, such as war and trade. In one exchange when Merz brought up 6 June as D-Day, Trump responded that it...
One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, from Aldbourne, in Wiltshire, who served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday. Aged 20, after boarding a landing craft at Lepe Beach in the...