Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest amphibious landing operation the world has ever seen - Operation Neptune. In ...

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 ...

D-day is simply a standard armed forces way of ... was the first photographer to land on Omaha Beach, on one of the earliest waves. He took over 100 photographs, but an over-excited darkroom ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

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 ...

The distance was mere yards, about as far as a baseball can be tossed. But Webb’s destination was Omaha Beach on D-Day, where German defenders had just decimated the first wave of American ...

During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain during WWII with the 7th Naval Beach Battalion during the D-Day invasions ... who took Omaha Beach on ...

He was killed on D-Day while establishing vital radio communication on Omaha Beach. He had refused treatment after being wounded in order to complete the task. Marine Corps veteran and Congressman ...