Naval analyst H I Sutton has published a report in Naval News highlighting the appearance of between three and five new ...
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, ...
Julius Shoulars is 94 and resides in a cozy second-floor apartment in a Virginia Beach retirement community. During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain ...
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 ...
In collaboration with the Utah Beach Landing Museum ... includes a landing map of the different Normandy beaches where Allied troops landed on D-Day. On the back of the polished stainless steel ...
June 6, 2009 sees the 65th anniversary of the D-Day Landings and to mark this occasion ... ever assembled with the tour taking in the landing beaches, battlegrounds, military cemeteries and ...
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 ...