The remains of an Iowa soldier who was killed in World War II have been accounted for, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

Day was crucial for the linking of the Utah and Omaha Beach Bridgeheads. However, without the capture of strategic locations ...

Felix Maurizio returned to the beach in Normandy for the first time since 1944 when he was 19 and fought there during World War II, manning a landing craft on Omaha Beach. Military service members ...

The remains of U.S. Army Pvt. James L. Harrington, a 21-year-old soldier from Cincinnati, Iowa, who was killed during World ...

John McManus, a World War II historian, looks at war scenes from "Saving Private Ryan" and rates them for realism. He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the ...

Unaware of the drama at the Ponte Boch Coxon Jimmy Green was taken from the first wave of American infantry into Omaha beach. GEORGE ‘JIMMY’ GREEN: The troops we took in were from Bedford Virg ...

John Hilgert, director of the Nebraska Department of Veterans' Affairs, speaks at a medal ceremony honoring an Omaha World War II veteran. The ceremony is part of an initiative launched earlier this ...