During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain during WWII with the 7th Naval Beach Battalion during the D-Day ... took Omaha Beach on June 6-7, 1944.
June 6, 1944, is a special date in American history. It is synonymous with D-Day, the Allied invasion of ... American, British and Canadian forces secured five beach heads. The first wave of ...
The D-Day invasion on June 6 ... Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. The Allied planners understood that no operation, regardless of its thoroughness, could account ...
A D-Day hero today paid his respects ... as dozens of American soldiers fell around him. Omaha Beach saw the worst of the action on June 6, 1944, with around 2,600 casualties on the day.
Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944 ... 4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy).
A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected ... The flag will be auctioned on June 9, along with Horvath’s Purple ...