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The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...
The carnage on Omaha Beach was some of the worst of the war, yet it could have been infinitely worse. As dawn broke that fateful morning, tens of thousands of German troops, ...
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Farther down Omaha Beach at Sector Easy Red, photographer Robert Capa arrived at the shore around 8:15 a.m. with the command group of Company E, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.
Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. Seven decades after the "Boys of Omaha Beach" landed in Normandy, veterans and soldiers return seeking closure as they enter the final years of their lives.
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 ...
When D-Day dawned June 6, 1944, and U.S. soldiers — at horrific cost — stormed Omaha Beach, Eyler was just offshore aboard Bradley’s flagship, the cruiser Augusta.
As I crouch down and gather the sand of Omaha Beach, I tell myself there's no way I could ever come here and frolic. No books, documentaries or movies can prepare you for the flood of emotion that ...
Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.
Kentucky Derby favorite Omaha Beach has been scratched from Saturday’s first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown because of a respiratory disease, race organizers said Wednesday on Twitter.