(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach ... they also said they collected sand from Utah Beach, one of four other landing sites in Normandy on D-Day, but found no shrapnel at all in that sample.

On Monday, the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford celebrated what would’ve been the 100th birthday of its late founder Sgt.

Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories ... was to get up on that beach in one piece and join up with my company.” Morrissette, of Papillion, survived D-Day, and 11 more months ...

Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach ... the Charles Shay Memorial; and the Utah Beach American Memorial, where they will honor 30 Comanche ...

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the ... led the first American troops onto Utah Beach during the D-Day landings sold for $514,000 at a ...

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, ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings ... Green led the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the high rate ...

He joined the U.S. Army in 1943 and landed on Utah Beach in Normandy ... Standing this week on what, on D-Day, were the blood-soaked sands of Omaha Beach, World War II fighter pilot Fredric ...