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 ...

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

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched.

Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day. A native of Linthicum Heights ... on your boat…I want you to get me on the beach.’ Roosevelt wanted to ride in Company ...

A town is marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a 3D floral display, complete with landing craft and soldiers. Huntingdon Town Council has installed a three metre-long (10ft ...

Dennis Zotigh Command Sergeant Major Julia Kelly (U.S. Army retired), one of 80 Native American delegates to the 75th anniversary observance of D-Day, stands on Omaha Beach. Kelly holds an eagle ...

But the beaches were just the beginning. If D Day was to succeed the allies had to smash through the coastal defences and advance in land, if they failed to do this it would make it easier for the ...