(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 ...
"The Americans got slaughtered, there's not two ways about it, Omaha Beach was a bloodbath as far as they were concerned." BBC/Lily-May Symonds John Daniels was 24 when he took part in D-Day The D ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s been 80 years since Marie West of Monument served in the Navy, but now, at the age of 101, she’s getting the recognition ...
George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life, was to have led the Blind Veterans UK ...
The remains of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy during World War II have returned to ...
D-Day veterans recall the bloody attack on Omaha Beach on 6th June 1944 that lead to 1700 American lives being lost. They recount the experience of being part of the largest armada in history ...
It’s been 80 years since Marie West of Monument served in the Navy, but now, at the age of 101, she’s getting the recognition ...
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, By Updated on Dec 10 ...
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 ...
Philip Streczyk led his platoon on D-Day across Omaha beach, cut through barbed wire and attacked an enemy beachhead.