Just a few weeks ago, standing on a bluff overlooking Omaha, the wide beach, just as Dad had described, lay below.

Streczyk, and the men they led, managed to slip in between strong German fortifications that were slaughtering the troops on the beach and fight their way to the top of the Omaha bluff ...

Dawson, Spalding, Streczyk and the men they led managed to slip between strong German fortifications that were slaughtering the troops on the beach and fight their way to the top of the Omaha ...

They scaled the adjoining heights, neutralizing German fortifications one by one ... The carnage on Omaha Beach was some of the worst of the war, yet it could have been infinitely worse.

"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard ...

Day, volunteers with the nonprofit Stories Behind the Stars are commemorating the sacrifice of the 1st Infantry Division, which lost 27 members on Omaha Beach. Cpl.

While you might think that Pyle's late arrival on Omaha Beach was a drawback ... by revealing objects that he saw on the beach - enemy obstacles and fortifications, equipment and soldiers ...

JUNE 1974 U.S. Army Rangers reenact the invasion of Omaha Beach on the 30th anniversary of D-Day. MAY 1994 Remnants of German fortifications still stand on Cap Blanc-Nez. JUNE 2014 Before dawn on ...

More than 1,000 allied troops died just on Omaha beach that day alone. Our tour took us through the Pointe du Hoc area, wandering through the area’s Nazi fortifications, built of 6-foot-thick ...