Among those brave young men steaming toward France early on D-Day was a 21-year-old medical student from West Philadelphia. Woodson didn’t wait for a draft notice.

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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.

On D-Day, as acting commanding officer of D Company, 2nd Ranger Battalion, Lomell's orders were to lead his men in scaling the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc between Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy.

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief, National Guard Bureau, book-ended his visit to D-Day 75th anniversary ceremonies with stops in countries where National ...

An Army veteran from Texas who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day with 900 men under his command has died at the age of 100. Sgt. Maj. Robert Blatnik died Saturday, according to CBS 11 Dallas .

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.

The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., on May 11, 2024. The memorial opened in 2001. The town and county of Bedford suffered the nation’s highest known per capita D-Day loss.

The long-awaited 50th anniversary of D-Day, a turning point for the 20th century and the men who lived it, arrived with all the pomp, pageantry and VIPs these Normandy beaches would allow.

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

7,800,000 sq. ft., is such engineering equipment as ten-and 14-ton road rollers, nine-ton bulldozers, pneumatic air compressors, concrete mixers, oxygen and acetylene generating plants, 100,000 ...

One of the most storied actions of the 101st Airborne on D-Day took place on the afternoon of June 6, as the U.S. Army forces landing on Utah Beach received an unwelcome surprise from the Germans ...