CAEN, FRANCE — The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep, dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant ...

Dark Docs The Greatest Deception of WW2: Operation Fortitude Posted: May 19, 2025 | Last updated: May 19, 2025 Late on the night of June 5th, 1944, the German army headquarters in occupied France ...

Underground caves in which thousands of civilians took shelter from one of the heaviest Allied bombings of World War II ... France. The time capsule labyrinth lies deep below the Normandy city of ...

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, Ouest-France and La Fabrique de Patrimoines ... Our latest episode: The reconstruction of Caen ...

Stories categorised in 'France ... seeing his first action of WW2 in a tank in... It was a few days after D-Day, 1944, and my mission was to go to Caen and bomb the German stronghold which ...

I am trying to find out some information about my father who served in France between 14th June 1944 and 2nd September 1944. He was in Caen and Falaise. He was a sergeant /tank commander with the ...

considering the ties between the UK and this portion of France. Its launch (flights began in July) is hugely timely – 2014 is a big year for Normandy. All is quiet when I land at Caen airport ...

The remains of an airman missing in action since 1944 were recovered on Jan. 22 in France. Above ... flies during World War II. (U.S. Army Air Forces) An airman whose plane was shot down during ...

Votre e-mail, avec votre consentement, est utilisé par Ouest-France pour recevoir notre newsletter. En savoir plus. Après un dépôt de gerbe au monument des Cheminots, à la gare de Caen puis ...

Spitfire NH341 flew 27 combat missions between June and July 1944 before it was shot down near Caen in France. Spitfire NH341 has been converted into a two-seat trainer plane as part of the £3m ...