I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...

At just 20 years old, Heinrich Severloh manned an MG42 atop WN62 on Omaha Beach—unleashing hell at 1,200 rounds per minute. While over 34,000 American troops stormed the shore below, Severloh, a farm ...

When I landed on Omaha Beach, I was 17 years old. There weren't many other young men in my Seabee battalion, because you were supposed to have some sort of expertise in construction, and they usually ...

There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach under heavy fire on D-Day will receive an award for self-sacrifice and public service on Saturday ...