The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would suffer extreme losses off the coast of Omaha Beach due to a combination ...

Today, the Normandy beach once code-named “Omaha” shows few visible signs of the events of June 6, 1944, when more than 160,000 Allied troops assaulted the heavily fortified, German-occupied ...

Dennis Zotigh Command Sergeant Major Julia Kelly (U.S. Army retired), one of 80 Native American delegates to the 75th anniversary observance of D-Day, stands on Omaha Beach. Kelly holds an eagle ...

But on D-Day morning, he took comfort seeing the massive ... Yet the first hours on Omaha Beach saw individual soldiers, or small groups, huddled together under impenetrable German fire as their ...

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected to fetch more than $55,000 at auction next week, Updated on Dec 10 ...

On D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US ... from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah. Casualties varied widely - on "Bloody Omaha", where around 4,000 men were killed or ...

A D-Day veteran has said he will "never forget" the bloody attack on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 that led to 1,700 American lives being lost. Joe Turpin, now 98, served on the ship HMS Ryde which ...

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 ...

Day, 102-year-old Onofrio "No No" Zicari was awarded the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony at the Veil Pavilion ...

President Joe Biden would be speaking at the Normandy American Cemetery almost 12 hours later to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The cemetery overlooks Omaha Beach, the deadliest of the ...