It was a beautiful day in Normandy. Omaha Beach was drenched in sunshine under a blue sky. Birds chirped. The English Channel quietly lapped at the sandy coast. It's hard to imagine that this tranquil ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

Omaha Beach is surely the most famous amphibious landing site in military history. The 1944 D-Day landing in Normandy delivered the first blows of the Allies’ fight to push back Nazi forces and ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...

Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...

14.5 x 22.8 cm. (5.7 x 9 in.) »Beachheads of Normandy«, in: LIFE magazine, Vol. 16, No. 25, June 19, 1944, p. 27; Robert Capa, Slightly out of focus, New York 1947 ...

More people should visit Normandy, France, particularly the D-Day beaches, where thousands sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of freedom. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.