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

S tanding on Omaha Beach, with the mist rolling in and the ocean stretching out before us, I felt an overwhelming sense of ...

Yet just days before the invasion ... National Museum of American History In the days and weeks after June 6, Omaha Beach was transformed into a highway for Allied men and material entering ...

Hundreds of people young and old cheer and cry before Carl Felton when he is in ... he survived the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Omaha Beach, the site of the most pivotal and ...

On this day 80 years ago, a farm boy from Alden Kansas got into a landing craft off the Normandy shore and headed for Omaha ... were shot before they got to land. He waded onto the beach, told ...

Woodson asked to return to treat more soldiers on Omaha Beach. After the war, he returned to Lincoln University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology before he was recalled to active duty ...

The United States and British ships commenced with a thirty minute bombardment of the enemy positions on OMAHA beach. My father said it was unbelievable. After this ‘softening up’ the first ...