Plans to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings have been announced by a city council. A service and parade will take place in Southampton on 6 June - exactly 80 years on from the ...

A plaque has been unveiled in memory of the only Battle of Britain fighter pilot to have won a Victoria Cross. James Brindley Nicolson attacked a German aircraft over Southampton in August 1940.

Establishing itself as the central hub for the marathon underwater mission, Southampton emerged as the primary base for operations. Just six weeks prior to D-Day ... of a plaque marking the ...

When the one-millionth G.I. left Britain’s Southampton for Normandy after Dday, wartime Mayor Rex Stranger was on the pier to bid him goodbye. The mayor learned then that Sergeant Paul S.