Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

These aren’t like the troop landing ships one sees in World War II ... bear little resemblance to the boats that carried soldiers between Britain and Normandy in 1944, they are “reminiscent of the ...

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56 ...