Joe Vaghi's top secret map of Omaha Beach survived the stormy trip across the English Channel that day. It was stuffed in a pocket of his overalls as he hurried across the Normandy tidal flats under ...

NORMANDY, France — The ghostly echoes of D-Day can still be felt – if not heard – in that special place we call “Omaha Beach.” Eighty years ago, 156,000 allied troops stormed onto Omaha Beach and four ...

Dad rarely talked much about the war, but when he did, he always mentioned the wide sandy plain of Omaha Beach and how far it was from the surf to any safe haven in face of German sharpshooters and ...

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 ...

June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Here’s one soldier’s account of what it was like to land on Omaha Beach during the fierce ...

Omaha Beach was the bloodiest landing site on D-Day, June 6, 1944. In this video, we revisit the brutal reality faced by American troops as they stormed the heavily fortified coastline under ...