Twenty-seven PA members of the 1st Infantry Division lost their lives on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Northampton County was home to three of the fallen. Here are their stories.

Twenty-seven PA members of the 1st Infantry Division lost their lives on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Lehigh County was home to one of the fallen: Pvt. Gerald Lewis Hillborn. This is his story.

The memorial was the vision of D-Day veteran and Virginia Guardsman J. Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who stormed Omaha Beach with the 116th Infantry and later championed its creation.

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 ...

The Best Defense Foundation brought 23 former servicemen to Normandy's beaches to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day this year. Fewer than 67,000 WWII veterans were still alive as of 2024.

"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.

Historic photos illustrate the D-Day landings, which happened 81 years ago Friday, June 6. ... Omaha Beach, the second to the west of the five landing beaches, ...

Several Aiken County residents have vivid memories of June 6, 1944, when almost 1600,000 Allied troops waded, crawled and ran into combat on the beaches of northern France, in a pivotal moment of ...

Seventy years ago, Eyler —from a little Iowa town across the river from Omaha, Neb. — was a carpenter in the U.S. Army, working for D-Day ground troops commander Gen. Omar Bradley.