(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

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 ...

A measure has been introduced in the House of Representatives calling for a congressional gold medal that would recognize the ...

Philip Streczyk led his platoon on D-Day across Omaha beach, cut through barbed wire and attacked an enemy beachhead.

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 ...

George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life, was to have led the Blind Veterans UK ...

D-Day also offers a powerful counterpoint in the ... 1st Infantry Division wading onto the ... [+] Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. The Allied planners understood ...

LONDON — D-Day veteran George Chandler ... of a flotilla of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings. He was on board as the sun rose ...