This article was originally published in June 1994 for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Ernest P. Leh joined the Army on Feb. 2, 1942, did basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga., and became part of the … ...

I had never heard this kind of silence before, the kind you’d usually reserve for death. I was standing on Omaha Beach and listened for something, anything, really.

Omaha Beach relics show sacrifices made Staff Writer Bonnie Washuk recently toured Omaha Beach in Normandy while on vacation to Paris. She writes about the memorial there, intact German bunkers ...

In a speech at Point du Hoc in Normandy, France, President Biden pays tribute to the rangers who scaled the 100-foot cliff overlooking Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944. "The rangers who scaled this cliff ...

At Omaha, the troops traversed more than 200 yards of beach, then had to scale 35 to 60 yards of cliffs, all while under enemy fire.

If you don't fancy a trip across the pond, enjoy all the beauty of the White Cliffs of Dover at this secluded Northern California beach with wildlife and views.

One company of U.S. soldiers sparked success on D-Day. What to know about the angels of Omaha. The landing at Omaha Beach started as a disaster for the Allies until two groups of soldiers found a ...

The American-French ceremony at Omaha Beach began a day of 70th anniversary D-Day commemorations along the French coast once held by Nazis. On the cliffs above Omaha, congregants observed the ...

A rescue operation was initiated after the man stuck on the edge of a cliff was heard yelling for help by a person at San Francisco's Baker Beach.

The American 1st Infantry Division and 29th Infantry Division would be badly mauled in their dawn landing at Omaha Beach; rough seas because of marginal weather conditions, mined obstacles on the ...

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan asked us to remember the U.S. Rangers who took the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, to “continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died,” and to be ...

Charles Noonan, a Wilmington native, led a platoon as a first lieutenant on June 6, 1944 — D-Day — as the allies invaded Normandy, France.