Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during ...

Pfc. Edward B. Simons was killed in action on December 6, 1944 in Belgium. He was repatriated and reburied in Gratiot Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Gratiot, Lafayette County, Wisconsin in March of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II played an instrumental role in the creation ...

On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France ... casualties came at Omaha Beach, where German resistance ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these ... Companies like Normandy Sightseeing Tours, Bayeux Shuttle and ...

The official international ceremony will take place June 6 on Omaha Beach ... Warren Goss also went to France for the 75th D-Day anniversary in 2019. WAC returned to Normandy Connie Jamison ...

Day, Omaha Beach,” will be on display at the Curtis Laws Wilson Library from Friday, April 4, through Thursday, May 15. This ...

A foot hold in France had been won ... videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage that followed ...