U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

With the landmark 80th anniversary of D-Day just weeks away ... “This cafe at Vierville Draw at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, refused to serve my British Army soldiers today as ‘they are English ...

With the 80th anniversary of D-Day one year away, we visit the sites that commemorate this world-defining event.

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In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books and ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

To plan for the operation the BBC ran a competition for French beach holiday photographs. It was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches. D-day is simply a standard armed ...