Africans played a big role in the liberation of France in 1944 ... flanked by war veterans - paid his respects to Senegalese WW2 soldiers in France Among the many African soldiers who fought ...

France's colours flew from the cathedral's spire during the ceremony in homage to the city's liberators. Macron was also to visit Natzweiler-Struthof, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of ...

1944’s hush-hush Allied plans to invade occupied France bring success, but hard fighting, as Hitler’s troops are well dug in in Normandy. With Jonathan Dimbleby.

In June, France plans to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans with a ceremony at Omaha Beach to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 troops from the U.S., Britain ...

Soldiers from the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command joined local officials and residents on Jan. 12, 2025, to ...

A war hero from Castle Cary has been awarded France’s highest military honour at the age of 105. Sydney "John" Maskell was ...

French soldiers were deployed for a decade to fight an Islamist insurgency in its former colonial territory of the Sahel ...

He was honoured on Armistice Day at a ceremony in Aixe-sur-Vienne, near the city of Limoges in central France ... just hours before the liberation of Limoges, "in the presence of numerous ...

TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York Minster tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22) . Joseph – known as Joe to friends ...