Let us not lose sight of what it has meant to be an American soldier, sailor, Marine and aviator, and the role Hoosiers ...
Day, June 6, 1944. In this video, we revisit the brutal reality faced by American troops as they stormed the heavily fortified coastline under relentless German fire. From the deadly bluffs to the ...
OMAHA BEACH, FranceOMAHA BEACH, France — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the ...
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Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested landings of the Normandy invasion. U.S. forces faced ...
I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...
NORMANDY, France — The ghostly echoes of D-Day can still be felt – if not heard – in that special place we call “Omaha Beach.” Eighty years ago, 156,000 allied troops stormed onto Omaha Beach and four ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...
WAUPUN -- A storm was raging when Orien White left Land's End in England headed for Omaha Beach in France. The man from Mackford Prairie -- along with the rest of the 3504 Ordinance Maintenance ...
This year being the 80th anniversary of World War II's conclusion is as good a time as any to visit its European battlegrounds. In March, my dad and I made the trip to tour, via car, the D-Day (June 6 ...
Here on a bluff high over the English Channel are some 9,000 white crosses and Stars of David at the American Cemetery, permanent reminders that over the course of our ...