Under cover of darkness, Allied swimmers slipped ashore on Omaha Beach armed with drills, knives, and nerves of steel, boring ...
June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Here’s one soldier’s account of what it was like to land on Omaha Beach during the fierce ...
As the only working MG42 left at WN62, Hinrich Severloh fired into six waves of American troops on Omaha Beach. His position ...
NORMANDY, France — The ghostly echoes of D-Day can still be felt – if not heard – in that special place we call “Omaha Beach.” Eighty years ago, 156,000 allied troops stormed onto Omaha Beach and four ...
June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...