Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day ... He fought in the Battle of the Bulge during the winter of 1944-45 and then in central Germany, ending the ...

Morton Waitzman stormed the beaches of Normandy, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps. Good Day's Buck Lanford sat down with the local WWII veteran to learn about how ...

About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense ...

With thousands of men ashore and many more landing the battle for Omaha had ... By the end of the day all five beaches had been captured and a little corner of Normandy had been secured, it ...

The Associated Press has had a presence on the beaches of Normandy since the actual invasion in 1944 ... it was likely the last major anniversary that veterans who fought in the battle would be alive ...

at the eastern end of Gold Beach – which records the names of more than 22,000 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.

If you're driving yourself, start in the town of Arromanches, which hosts two museums that help provide context for the battle ... the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy ...

He looks at town battle scenes and connects them to real ... The Summer of 1944 — The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise." You can learn more about McManus on his website.

"The 1,475 giant silhouettes of British soldiers, sailors and airmen, in the wildflower meadow above Gold Beach ... and in the ensuing three-month Battle of Normandy which led to Allied victory ...