(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site ... the German military fired on Allied troops; and the Normandy American Cemetery, where thousands of U.S. soldiers ...

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 ...

Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument to honor American ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

By John Kline, Guest Commentary On May 26, 1943, Red Wing high school senior Richard Ekholm celebrated his 18th birthday and days later walked across the Sheldon Auditorium stage in cap and gown.

was planted by a U.S. army engineer on Omaha Beach, the scene of some of the bloodiest battles when Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World War II. The Dallas auction house ...

The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was n ...

The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was n ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, where he suffered a shrapnel wound to his forehead. He was among Gen. George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of ...