(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the harrowing battles that began on June 6, 1944: the bomb ...

On Monday, the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford celebrated what would’ve been the 100th birthday of its late founder Sgt.

A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he saved lives and ...

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 ...

Dennis Zotigh Command Sergeant Major Julia Kelly (U.S. Army retired), one of 80 Native American delegates to the 75th anniversary observance of D-Day, stands on Omaha Beach. Kelly holds an eagle ...

“Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sgt. Bob Slaughter and the National D-Day Memorial were Dad’s way of educating the public of how vital D-Day was in winning World War II,” Bob ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

By John Kline, Guest Commentary On May 26, 1943, Red Wing high school senior Richard Ekholm celebrated his 18th birthday and days later walked across the Sheldon Auditorium stage in cap and gown.

“ Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sgt. Bob Slaughter and the National D-Day Memorial were Dad’s way of educating ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings ... Jimmy' Green led the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the high ...

Today marks what would’ve been the 100th birthday of John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who joined the United States military when ...