OMAHA BEACH, France - A brief timeline of events on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Shortly after midnight: More than 2,200 Allied aircraft begin bombing German defenses and other targets in Normandy.

was planted by a U.S. army engineer on Omaha Beach, the scene of some of the bloodiest battles when Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World War II. The Dallas auction house ...

• An Arizona native who now lives in Tempe, Gomez served under Gen. George Patton during World War II and fought on both ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

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 ...

Day, 102-year-old Onofrio "No No" Zicari was awarded the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony in Las Vegas.

A telegraphist who was part of the second wave to storm Omaha Beach as part of the Normandy ... the start of the allied campaign to liberate France and Western Europe from Nazi occupation during ...