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 ...

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.

On June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, graves registration personnel recovered a set of remains from Omaha Beach that they ...

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 ...