Battalion Sgt. Major Jim Mardin served in the U.S. Army in an anti-aircraft unit, disembarking onto Omaha Beach in Normandy ...
he took comfort seeing the massive armada assembled to storm the beaches of Normandy. “Who could harm us with this firepower behind us?” he wrote. Yet the first hours on Omaha Beach saw ...
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
After returning from their trip to Omaha Beach in Normandy, Palm Beach International Airport welcomed two World War II veterans from the Treasure Coast. Sydney Edson, 100, from Lake Worth Beach ...
Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches ... groups commemorating the anniversary. Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want to ...
President Joe Biden would be speaking at the Normandy American Cemetery almost 12 hours later to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach, the deadliest of the ...
Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these ... Companies like Normandy Sightseeing Tours, Bayeux Shuttle and ...
DAN SNOW: A second wave powered Omaha beach they could see the devastation ... five beaches had been captured and a little corner of Normandy had been secured, it’s been seen by history as ...