John Arthur, pictured centre, operates a Vickers machine gun in World War Two As the UK commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which led to the liberation of Nazi-occupied north-west Europe ...

A "one-in-a-million" D-Day veteran who flew into Normandy on a military glider and survived being shot by machine gun fire from a tank has died aged 100. Bill Gladden, from Haverhill, Suffolk ...

“Cornell was a company runner and has repeatedly carried messages through the most heavy and accurate enemy mortar and MG (machine gun ... Cornell’s role in D-Day and the battles that followed ...