At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Off Normandy’s coast his landing ... beach in the early morning of the 13th at the Sugar Red Section of Utah Beach, located on the northeast side of the Normandy Peninsula in France, the beaches ...

The Normandy landings ... both sides on the beaches, codenamed Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha by the Allies. Lines of white marble crosses on the cliff top above Omaha Beach today mark the ...

Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach ... landing locations for each group of Allied Forces as their ships reached the beaches of Normandy.

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy ... 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.

The so-called Team Band of Brothers are running and hiking the beaches in Normany ... to run and hike along the Normandy beaches to commemorate the D-Day landings. The group will travel up to ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day ...

the LCVPs — short for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel — designed and built by Higgins' firm were unloading wave after wave of American GIs on Normandy's Utah Beach during the D-Day landings.