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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The memorial was the vision of D-Day veteran and Virginia Guardsman J. Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who stormed Omaha Beach with the 116th Infantry and later championed its creation.

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 ...