Ted Cordery Ted Cordery, as a young child, sitting on his mother's lap D-Day began with a damp, grey dawn over the English Channel. More than 6,330 boats carrying thousands of men readied ...

"Five thousand boats there were there... the largest armada the world has ever seen," he said. D-Day: Veterans and world leaders mark 75th anniversary What were the D-Day landings? 10 things you ...

A D-Day veteran who served as a torpedo boat gunner escorting American forces has died at the age of 99. George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life ...

He was 99. Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944, was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who gathered last ...

A crewman on a British motor torpedo boat leaving from Newhaven, George Chandler from Burgess Hill crossed the Channel on the afternoon of D-Day. His vessel was an armed guard for the American ...