A Guernsey woman serving as a Wren in World War Two unknowingly intercepted messages from her home island. Barbara Quevâtre ...

A member of the French Resistance, Brefort lived in Deauville throughout WW2, providing military intelligence on the German defences by drawing intricate maps to send to her comrades in Paris.

Its aim was to liberate the beaches and towns of Normandy from the German army, which was occupying ... In this video, Le Monde explains the story of D-Day: how this large-scale operation was ...

Mrs Quevâtre has been sharing her memories with BBC Guernsey as part of The Island Memories Project to create a digital audio archive of WW2 memories ... After D-Day, on the 6 June 1944, she ...

Sitting behind Perspex at the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, the tangled strips of aluminium tape, called Chaff, helped to disrupt German radars. When dropped at the right point over the ...