World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

10 things you might not know about D-Day By nightfall on 6 June 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops - including British, US and Canadian forces - had landed on Normandy's beaches, despite challenging ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- The Lehigh Valley has lost its last known living D-Day Veteran. Richard Schermerhorn died a few ...

World War II veterans whose D-Day anniversary trip ... despite all the obstacles. "I pay tribute to the dedication of everyone involved in this." Normandy Memorial Trust An artist's view of ...

The D-Day invasion on June 6 ... constructing extensive fortifications, placing obstacles on the beaches, and deploying mobile reserves nearby to launch immediate counterattacks.

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France ... would assault two beaches in the West code named Omaha and Utah. But the beaches were just the beginning. If D Day was to succeed the ...

June 5 (UPI) --Eighty years ago, Allied forces invaded the shores of Normandy, France, in what became world renown as D-Day, ...

Company A – and one of the first men to land on the beaches of Normandy, on D-Day. “For their unit, which was in the first wave, they were there to clear the obstacles on the beach.” ...