It was a beautiful day in Normandy. Omaha Beach was drenched in sunshine under a blue sky. Birds chirped. The English Channel quietly lapped at the sandy coast. It's hard to imagine that this tranquil ...

Omaha Beach is surely the most famous amphibious landing site in military history. The 1944 D-Day landing in Normandy delivered the first blows of the Allies’ fight to push back Nazi forces and ...

Normandy isn’t just another tourist stop - it’s a place every man should experience with respect. This day trip from Paris ...

Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...

Dad rarely talked much about the war, but when he did, he always mentioned the wide sandy plain of Omaha Beach and how far it was from the surf to any safe haven in face of German sharpshooters and ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Three trips to Normandy, France, were "life-changing" for Grafton Mayor Mike Morrow and his wife, Lynne, and are a part of ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...

14.5 x 22.8 cm. (5.7 x 9 in.) »Beachheads of Normandy«, in: LIFE magazine, Vol. 16, No. 25, June 19, 1944, p. 27; Robert Capa, Slightly out of focus, New York 1947 ...