This video explores the intense World War 2 battle at Omaha Beach and the pivotal role of Brigadier General Norman Cota. Through cinematic storytelling, it reveals how Cota helped rescue a near-failed ...

(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the harrowing battles that began on June 6, 1944: the bomb craters left ...

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha ...

Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...

Omaha Beach was supposed to fall quickly. Instead, it turned into a slaughter. Pinned down by machine guns, mines, and ...

One of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Robert Capa via National Museum of American History Between the villages of Vierville-sur ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

OMAHA BEACH, France - More than 20 Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division helped commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day June 6 by participating in three ceremonies at Omaha Beach. The historic day ...

VIERVILLE-SUR-MER, France — In an effort to prolong summer, we recently took our kids to a beach. The French have long dubbed it la plage d'or, for the golden hue of its fine sand. We Americans know ...