I have twice had the privilege of visiting the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, a tree-lined sanctuary nestled along the Normandy coastline. It’s a profoundly moving, soul-stirring ...

And, the significance - it stops the Germans from getting reinforcements to Point du Hoc into Omaha Beach", said Desjardins. The courage of all those involved with the Normandy beach landings would ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...

Part of D-Day's bloodiest assault at Omaha Beach barely a year out of high school, Carl Felton learned early that life and the world are fragile.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A Memorial Day flag project that had been canceled for this year is back on. Thousands of flags are now waving at the Westlawn-Hillcrest Cemetery thanks to overwhelming ...

Take a flight of discovery high above significant WWII sites, including the Holocaust Memorial, Auschwitz, Oradour-sur-Glane, the Reichstag, the American Cemetery, and Omaha Beach. This poignant drone ...

An alleged drunk driver damaged markers at an Omaha cemetery this weekend, according to a social media post from the Omaha Police Department's Project Night Life Squad.

FRAMINGHAM — Lino Covarrubias was standing on Omaha Beach in France last month, reflecting on nearly 800 U.S. soldiers who gave their lives on D-Day more than 80 years earlier, when he spotted a ...

Families with flat headstones at Mt. Hope Cemetery have trouble finding their loved ones.

“These stories will go on and on and on.” At the Normandy American Cemetery that overlooks Omaha, the resting place for nearly 9,400 American war dead, workers and visitors rub sand from the beach ...

Even once Omaha Beach was secured, Andrews' remains were not identified. He became known only as X-48 St. Laurent and was buried as an "unknown" in the American Cemetery in Normandy.

Virginia National Guard Soldiers pay tribute to heroes on Omaha Beach, marking 81 years since the historic D-Day invasion.