(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site ... the German military fired on Allied troops; and the Normandy American Cemetery, where thousands of U.S. soldiers ...

he took comfort seeing the massive armada assembled to storm the beaches of Normandy. “Who could harm us with this firepower behind us?” he wrote. Yet the first hours on Omaha Beach saw ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

He served with the 115th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, and fought in the battle on D-Day at Omaha Beach, Normandy, according to a biography shared by his family.

DAN SNOW: A second wave powered Omaha beach they could see the devastation ... five beaches had been captured and a little corner of Normandy had been secured, it’s been seen by history as ...