The bullets were still flying when Bill Luke reached the bloody sands of Omaha Beach on the afternoon of June 6, 1944. That wasn’t part of the plan. A clerk in an engineer battalion, Luke had expected ...

(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the harrowing battles that began on June 6, 1944: the bomb craters left ...

On June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the nation in prayer for all the men who had fought in one of the largest battles of World War II -- the D-Day invasion of France. In a radio ...

Shrapnel and other debris from the D-Day landings is still present in large quantities in sand on Omaha Beach, scientists have revealed. The site of one of the most ferocious battles during the D-Day ...

Standing this week on what, on D-Day, were the blood-soaked sands of Omaha Beach, World War II fighter pilot Fredric Taylor found himself thinking of a high school friend who was killed in a ...

The Navy SEAL Museum in Florida, alongside Virginia Beach firm Clark Nexsen and North Carolina firm Studio X Design, dedicated a D-Day monument park last week at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in France in ...

One of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Robert Capa via National Museum of American History Between the villages of Vierville-sur ...

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Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

Stamped and inscribed; Stamped, labeled (typed captions), and numbering in an unknown hand on verso: - Typed extended caption adhered to back of photo, verso, upper left: "FRANCE 1944 ... (“Images of ...