Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day ... get me on the beach.’ Roosevelt wanted to ride in Company F’s boat and be among the first to hit the beaches.

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

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...

The so-called Team Band of Brothers are running and hiking the beaches in Normany in tribute ... the Normandy beaches to commemorate the D-Day landings. The group will travel up to 44 miles ...

It was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches. D-day is simply ... one American unit landing in the first wave, lost 90% of its men. On Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty ...

Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed to surge troops and tanks over a beach ... Only a few beaches are firm and clear enough ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on ... 4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across ...

This year, 80 Native delegates have been asked to take part in the official commemoration of D-Day ... landing locations for each group of Allied Forces as their ships reached the beaches of ...