As the United States marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday ... exhumed from the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach in 2021, as part of an ongoing project to account for the ...

The Normandy beaches were chosen for D-Day because they lay within range of ... U.S. division were to follow up after the assault had cleared the way through the beach defenses.

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault and had brushes with two famous generals there, died Tuesday in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar ...

Historical D-Day structures on the Hampshire coast are once again accessible following repair work to a storm-damaged beach. Thousands of troops left from Lepe Beach in June 1944, and some of the ...

Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day. A native of Linthicum Heights ... on your boat…I want you to get me on the beach.’ Roosevelt wanted to ride in Company ...

If you are young and not really clear what D-Day was, let me tell you ... and the day I came ashore on Utah Beach, four days after the initial invasion, is one of mine. As we approached the ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been greeted with huge applause and cheers as he arrived for a D-Day anniversary ceremony attended by international leaders.

Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No houses stood nearby, just minefields, military pillboxes and enemy machine gun posts. It was D-Day, and on that ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — Sid Edson was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his role aboard a B-24 bomber on D-Day. He emphatically refuses to be labeled a hero. “I just did what I was told ...

Remains of wartime installations can still be seen at Lepe on the Hampshire coast Historical D-Day structures on the Hampshire coast are once again accessible following repair work to a storm ...