World War II veteran Jake Larson — known to his 1.2 million TikTok followers as " Papa Jake " — has died at age 102. His ...

Omaha Beach is an incredible, moving D-Day site in Normandy, and we loved visiting. From standing on the beach, to Pointe du ...

Before the Americans could storm ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day as part of the Allied invasion of Western Europe, their path to success was partly due to some ships from Halifax. Minesweepers carried ...

The devastating opening sequence shown in the movie is not fiction. It shaped the beginning of Saving Private Ryan years before the script was written. Steven Spielberg remembered it, and he opened ...

While most storming Omaha Beach were in their 20s, one man stood out—not for youth, but for age and sheer courage. This is his forgotten D-Day story.

One of the last members of World War ll's 83rd Infantry has died. Marvin Parr Blakeman passed away on Saturday, July 26, at ...

Soldiers of the First U.S. Army hold a ceremony on Omaha Beach in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on Friday, June 7, 2024, to honor Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat ...

Stingray Beach in Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium has closed to allow an investigation into the deaths of multiple stingrays. Kindergartners and preschoolers in the Henry Doorly Zoo ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday ...

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 On D-Day, a roughly 7,000-yard stretch of beach in Normandy, France given the code name "Omaha" proved to be the Allies' biggest obstacle to the success of ...