close to the spot where Woodson is thought to have come ashore on the now-peaceful beach that on D-Day was raked by German machine-gun and artillery rounds before U.S. forces finally captured it ...

When the 116th was chosen to be among the first to land on D-Day, Slaughter was in command of a machine gun squadron as a 19-year-old sergeant. Decades after the war in his retirement, Slaughter ...

“ Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sgt. Bob Slaughter and the National D-Day Memorial were Dad’s way of educating ...