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 ...

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 ...

Leonard Schroeder trained his whole career for that moment on D-Day. A native of Linthicum Heights ... on your boat…I want you to get me on the beach.’ Roosevelt wanted to ride in Company ...

Coast Guard LCIs, protected by barrage balloons against low-flying Nazi airplanes, advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower ...

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 ...

But the beaches were just the beginning. If D Day was to succeed the allies had to smash through the coastal defences and advance in land, if they failed to do this it would make it easier for the ...