For years, Earl J. Buffington declined invitations to speak at local veterans’ events about being among the first troops on Omaha Beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944. He preferred to keep the horrific ...

On June 6, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the nation in prayer for all the men who had fought in one of the largest battles of World War II -- the D-Day invasion of France. In a radio ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

Standing this week on what, on D-Day, were the blood-soaked sands of Omaha Beach, World War II fighter pilot Fredric Taylor found himself thinking of a high school friend who was killed in a ...

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 On D-Day, a roughly 7,000-yard stretch of beach in Normandy, France given the code name "Omaha" proved to be the Allies' biggest obstacle to the success of ...

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(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach, today’s visitors to the site of the D-Day operations are faced with stark reminders of the harrowing battles that began on June 6, 1944: the bomb craters left ...

One of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Robert Capa via National Museum of American History Between the villages of Vierville-sur ...

PARIS -- D-Day veteran Papa Jake Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate World War ...

Stamped and inscribed; Stamped, labeled (typed captions), and numbering in an unknown hand on verso: - Typed extended caption adhered to back of photo, verso, upper left: "FRANCE 1944 ... (“Images of ...