LIVE: D Day 75th anniversary in Portsmouth: ships set sail for Normandy
Subscribe to our channel Royal British Legions ship MV Boudicca, crewed by 300 war veterans and escorted by a flotilla of Royal Navy vessels, sets sail for Normandy from Portsmouth on Wednesday, June 5, retracing the route taken 75 years ago by the Allied powers on DDay. Portsmouths celebrations mark the importance of the coastal city as an embarkation site for the historic Normandy Landings, which saw thousands of troops, ships and aircrafts invade Nazi occupied France in 1944. Vid
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