American soldiers are honored at cemetery in Normandy, France overlooking Omaha Beach, where thousands died in World War II's D-Day invasion ...

Travel: Normandy American Cemetery at Omaha Beach Sun., Nov. 10, ... We lose so many WWII veterans each day but a few are still healthy enough to make the pilgrimage to Normandy.

We'll almost double that on day two," said Scott Desjardins, the superintendent of the Normandy American Cemetery. "American soldiers will continue to arrive in Europe and all those soldiers need to ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — 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 ...

Although World War II was won by the Allies, for many U.S., British, Canadian and French troops, their personal battles ended in Normandy. At the American Cemetery and Memorial, nearly 10,000 of ...

With Europe now wracked by a security crisis, President Obama on Friday heralded “America’s commitment to freedom” on the poignant 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings that sped the end of ...

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 ...

The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944 — code-named Operation Overlord — was a daunting enterprise and one of the riskiest gambles of World War II. The men who stormed the ...

Omaha long has felt pride that a military code-named beach 5,000 miles away has carried the city’s name into history. Now a Sister Cities relationship is being formed that hopes ...

ON OMAHA BEACH, France — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day, as Tuesday’s ceremonies got underway in honor of ...

We walked through the gates of the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach just as the staff raised the twin American Flags that fly on the tall poles at ...