NORMANDY, France — Virginia National Guard Soldiers stood in silent formation Friday morning as the sun broke over Omaha Beach, paying tribute to the heroes who stormed these sands 81 years ago.

After firing one of the deadliest machine-gun barrages on Omaha Beach, Hinrich Severloh fled WN62 but could not escape the ...

At only 20 years old, Heinrich Severloh manned an MG42 on WN62 overlooking Omaha Beach. For nine brutal hours, he fired into ...

On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Ed Morrissette a 95-year-old WWII veteran of Papillion, reminisces while toasting to his fallen comrades with a drink accompanied by John Adams, Tom Demro, Antonio ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — 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 centenarians, ...

The largest amphibious invasion in history was launched on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. For this year’s 81st ...

Now 101, Shay is one of a dwindling number of living D-Day vets. Over the years, he has been a fixture at annual remembrance ceremonies commemorating the June 6, 1944, Allied assault on the beaches of ...

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 ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published on June 2, 2014. It’s an obscure mystery in the annals of World War II history. How did Utah and Omaha beaches — two chunks of French sand that ...