You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.

As part of Operation Tonga, the troops were sent to destroy a gun battery and secure control of four key bridges. They dropped into France hours before the beach landings commenced. Brig Berry ...

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, Operation Tonga began with 24,000 Canadian, British, and American airborne troops ...

But far from being an object for derision, the late king and his personal style continued a long tradition that explains Tonga's status as the only Pacific nation not to be colonised. This year ...

The battalion played a key role in Operation Tonga during the D-Day landings, capturing Ranville. It later fought in the Battle of Breville, and took part in the 6th Airborne Division advance to ...