(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the harrowing battles that began on June 6, 1944: the bomb ...

The remains of a U.S. soldier who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy during World War II have returned to ...

Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

On D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US ... from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah. Casualties varied widely - on "Bloody Omaha", where around 4,000 men were killed or ...

D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors ...

"The Americans got slaughtered, there's not two ways about it, Omaha Beach was a bloodbath as far as they were concerned." BBC/Lily-May Symonds John Daniels was 24 when he took part in D-Day The D ...

Historian Dan Snow and numerous British and American survivors tell the story of how the D-Day landings were planned. The Battle for Omaha. videoThe Battle for Omaha Veterans of the Omaha Beach ...

LONDON — D-Day veteran George Chandler ... of a flotilla of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings. He was on board as the sun rose ...