World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings ... Green led the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the high rate ...

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 ...

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 ...