Mer, where thousands of troops came ashore on D-Day on June 6, 1944. A local police spokesperson said ‘the driver hit ...

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

Storming the D-Day beach, Hollis didn’t take cover. Instead, in a moment of extreme courage, he stood up and ran zigzagging ...

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 ...

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 ...

To plan for the operation the BBC ran a competition for French beach holiday photographs. It was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable beaches. D-day is simply a standard armed ...

RAF bombers, beach assaults and balls of yarn have come together for a "bonkers" D-Day exhibition dreamt up by a woman born in Northern Ireland and brought to painstaking life by an army of knitters ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...

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.