Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. The ...

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 ...

A 97-year-old World War II veteran just came home to Tulsa after going back ... Two days before the 78th anniversary of D-Day, Parker stepped foot on Omaha beach for the second time.

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 ...

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 ...