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Omaha Beach, D-Day (June 6, 1944)
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest amphibious landing operation the world has ever seen - Operation Neptune. In ...
Twenty-seven PA members of the 1st Infantry Division lost their lives on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Northampton County was home to three of the fallen. Here are their stories.
Hillborn was mortally wounded and died from his wounds on June 6, 1944, during the assault of Omaha Beach, Normandy, France. He received temporary burial at Cemetery #3582, St. Laurent Cemetery ...
During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...
The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans have returned with the same message ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — On the hallowed ground above Omaha Beach, more than two dozen American World War II veterans joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top officials Friday to ...
On June 6, 1944, Omaha — whose name was designated by the U.S. military — was a 5-mile stretch of crescent-shaped beach and bluffs guarding the Normandy coast.
Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The role played by Coast Guard personnel who crewed the Higgins boats was critical to the success of the D-Day landings in ... June 6, 1944. (U ... Higgins boat on Omaha Beach to save ...
to the Normandy American Cemetery that is the final resting place for nearly 9,400 American war dead and which overlooks Omaha beach, one of the D-D-day invasion zones on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/John ...