Three more U.S. Army servicemen killed during 1944's historic D-Day operation have been identified, years after being buried as unknowns at Normandy American Cemetery.

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Before they became famous, these men fought in the D-Day invasion in World War II. Here is what they experienced and what they remembered.

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Army's website says that "the more poetic insist D-Day is short for 'day of decision.'" Asked in 1964, Eisenhower instructed his assistant Brig. Gen. Robert Schultz, to answer.

During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

Woodson was a 21-year-old Army corporal who stormed the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944, as one of the 1,700 Black soldiers assigned to the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion of the First Army.

WASHINGTON — Army Medic Waverly Woodson, who treated 200 wounded men on D-Day, was finally awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on Tuesday after a decadeslong push for recognition.