The Longest Day-D-day +60

A paratrooper of US 82nd Airborne returns to the beaches of Normandy. He wasn't sure what he would find there but was heartened to see that, far from being forgotten, there are many tributes and commemorations to those who fought and died.

A Personal Account of D-Day

Stanley Burrows was refused permission to leave Harland and Wolf to join up but Stanley hatched a cunning plan to get sacked. It's with great sadness that we have to update this story with the news that following a short illness, Stanley Burrows passed away, peacefully, on the 2nd of October 2004.

GIs return to Co. Down 63 years on...

In May 1942, the First Armored Division of the US army arrived in County Down and made Castlewellan Castle its headquarters. Veterans of that same company returned to County Down in 2005 to revisit some of the places where they were stationed 63 years before. Listen to each of them talking about their experiences of Northern Ireland in 1942.

POW Houdini

Larne man Tommy Shields joined the Royal Navy in 1936 and when war interupted his ordinary service in 1939, he spent the next 5 years escaping back into camps almost as many times as he escaped out of them. If you haven't read his story you should. It is with a heavy heart that we have to report that Tommy passed away on Monday 18th July 2005.