A year after joining the Navy the day after graduating high school, Robert Curl of Alabama found himself on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. My name is Robert Louis Curl. I was born on June 28, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Robert Capa via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today's visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the ...

On D-Day, dozens of Sherman tanks were launched into rough seas off Omaha Beach. Many never reached the shore, sinking under heavy waves and enemy fire. For decades, these armored vehicles remained ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Guy Martin covers culture, travel, and Thoroughbred racing. This photograph shows a partially submerged bunker (Blockhaus) from ...

Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach. But his heroic record that day became a casualty of entrenched racism, wartime bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping. Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson ...

Omaha Beach was the bloodiest landing site on D-Day, June 6, 1944. In this video, we revisit the brutal reality faced by American troops as they stormed the heavily fortified coastline under ...

Tourists walk across the main square of Place Du Marche near the former D-Day landing zone of Omaha Beach. CHRIS HELGREN/Reuters/Corbis On a brilliant, spring morning in Normandy, the beach at ...

Dad rarely talked much about the war, but when he did, he always mentioned the wide sandy plain of Omaha Beach and how far it was from the surf to any safe haven in face of German sharpshooters and ...

My father-in-law, Jimmy Green, wrote this article about his wartime experiences and how he came to remember events more recently: I was born on the 4th July 1921 in the city of Bristol, England. It ...