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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site ... the German military fired on Allied troops; and the Normandy American Cemetery, where thousands of U.S. soldiers ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument to honor American ...

Today marks what would’ve been the 100th birthday of John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who joined the United States military when ...

Battalion Sgt. Major Jim Mardin served in the U.S. Army in an anti-aircraft unit, disembarking onto Omaha Beach in Normandy ...

Seventy-five years after D-Day, on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, one of the last surviving Native American D-Day veterans remembers his fellow soldiers in his traditional way - with ceremony ...

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 ...

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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 ...

After Normandy, Goss transferred to the 70th Infantry ... The official international ceremony will take place June 6 on Omaha Beach. According to statistics from the National World War II Museum ...