Retelling of the events of D-Day, focused on the story of Sword Beach, drawn from the accounts of those who were there.

President Emmanuel Macron gave one of France's highest honors on Friday to Leon Gautier, last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded onshore on D-Day ... up the beach as bullets ...

"They used this farm as the first real stronghold in the D-Day invasion ... piper William "Mad Bill" Millin, the commando who strode along Sword Beach playing uplifting ditties on his treasured ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...