U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

The Princess Royal hailed the “unwavering determination” of the allied forces as hundreds of parachutists jumped over Normandy on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

From the hallowed ground where many of their fallen comrades rest beneath French soil, they honored the dead and commemorated ... overlooking Omaha Beach, where many of the soldiers came ashore ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy ...

Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects around ... Normandy Memorial Upon the shoulders of those young soldiers, sailors and airmen rested the fate of Western Europe and ...