Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument to honor American ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories ... was to get up on that beach in one piece and join up with my company.” Morrissette, of Papillion, survived D-Day, and 11 more months ...

With the landmark 80th anniversary of D-Day just weeks away ... “This cafe at Vierville Draw at Omaha Beach, in Normandy, refused to serve my British Army soldiers today as ‘they are English ...

Rycroft and his orderly were the only medics to remain on Omaha Beach until June ... looking afresh at the Normandy landings. “RAF people landed there on D-Day and found themselves facing ...

The official international ceremony will take place June 6 on Omaha Beach. According ... went to France for the 75th D-Day anniversary in 2019. WAC returned to Normandy Connie Jamison, 82, of ...

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected ... when Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World ...

I think D-Day was the single greatest military ... videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach landings in Normandy recall their memories just before the attack began, and the carnage ...

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

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach ... is the Normandy Visitors Center, which highlights the D-Day timeline, the ...

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches ... Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want ...