On the morning of 25 July 1944, the Allies commenced ‘Operation Cobra’ . This was intended to achieve the breakout and began by ‘Carpet Bombing’ of the German positions. For their part, the German ...

Carole and Gerard Stewart have spent the last five years researching Carole's glider-flying uncle Fred A woman whose uncle was involved in the taking of Pegasus Bridge in World War Two is set to join ...

Tuosist native Eoin O’Sullivan writes of his annual pilgrimage to the little café in Benouville that was the first building in Europe liberated by the Allies as D-Day erupted on the coast of Normandy ...

Replica 'Pegasus Bridge' sign next to the Gondrée café and Caen Canal, 23 July 2004, almost sixty years to the day after 'Operation Mosquito'. In 2004 the owner was Madame Arlette Gondrée-Pritchett, ...

A woman whose uncle was involved in the taking of Pegasus Bridge in World War Two is set to join a commemoration event in his memory. Sapper Frederick George Shorey, from North Shields, served in the ...