OMAHA BEACH, France — Sid Edson was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his role aboard a B-24 bomber on D-Day. He emphatically refuses to be labeled a hero. “I just did what I was told ...

Omaha Beach and the 1st Infantry Division on D-Day. Saving Private Ryan depicts the fight that the US 29th Infantry Division along with the Rangers endured on the beach in the Dog Green Sector ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

80 years later: D-Day vets head back to Normandy. Map of invasion ... Ryan," which opens with a depiction of the invasion on Omaha Beach. "I suffered through the first 25 minutes of the movie ...

WWII veterans from around the world are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler's defeat. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP) OMAHA BEACH, France — Under ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands ...

a short distance from D-Day landmarks Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc. Bernard Lebrec makes some of Normandy's most spectacular cider and a spirited calvados — apple brandy — in his family ...

Eighty years ago on June 6, 1944, he survived the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Omaha Beach, the site of the most pivotal and bloodiest battle of D-Day. One of five beaches targeted ...

Canadian soldiers alight on Juno Beach in France, one of the five beaches Allied soldiers descended upon during D-Day -- 80 years ago ... over 73,000 US troops landed on Omaha and Utah beaches ...

Shotton, 32, who had worked in a hardware store in Washington, D.C.; Orie Krieger ... as it headed to Omaha Beach. As the United States marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, the ...

(Jeremias Gonzalez/The Associated Press) A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the ...