For an in-depth look at the American Ranger ... piloted those landing craft, flew air support or toiled on an off-shore warship. Four decades after D-Day, U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited ...

Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day. A native of Linthicum Heights ... Roosevelt, along with Schroeder and his men, would be landing on Utah Beach.

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. Start Over Share Slideshow Published on ...

Many of the details of the landing were only learned by friends and relatives long after the battle ended. Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day. ...Yesterday I had ...

Then, on landing, I could see hundreds of soldiers scattered out and lying flat. Every now and then a few would get up, run forward and fall flat again. My first shell came whistling in and I hit the ...

Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, addressing Allied troops before the Normandy landing Eighty Native American delegates have traveled to France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected to fetch more than $55,000 at auction next week, Updated on Dec 10 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A bird strike took out one of an American Airlines jet’s two engines after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport and forced the plane to turn around and land at John F.