several artifacts collected over the decades help tell the story of Omaha Beach and the invasion landings on D-Day. In the morning hours of D-Day, Pvt. Howard I. Moorefield of North Carolina was ...

Landing at Omaha Beach on June 7, 1944 – one day after the historic D-Day invasion of Normandy, France – U.S. Army Captain ...

he was among those behind the largest seaborne invasion in military history. Larson's chilling stories bring to life moments ...

The storming of Omaha Beach was later depicted in the film Saving ... When he was 24 years old, he was involved in allied invasion of Normandy. He was transported to the landing site in a DUKW ...

The landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion ... Omaha", where around 4,000 men were killed or wounded, one US unit landing in the first wave lost 90% of its men. On Gold ...

FRAMINGHAM — Lino Covarrubias was standing on Omaha Beach in France last month, reflecting on nearly 800 U.S. soldiers who gave their lives on D-Day more than 80 years earlier, when he spotted a young ...

In the spring of 1945, he was sent across the Pacific for the invasion of Okinawa. Vaghi came ashore on April 1st and was astonished to discover that, unlike Omaha Beach, there was virtually no ...

He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day. He discusses the realism of the weapons and strategies ...