He was wounded in his approach to the Normandy beaches when his landing craft hit a mine, but despite his wounds the Army says he went on to save well over 100 of his fellow soldiers. Army records ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about ... American figure to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy. And he did so armed only with ...

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books ...

In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate ... along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men.

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France ... their target for D Day was the city of Caen As the landing craft powered into sword beach troops were heartened by the smoking shoreline ...