Visiting the D-Day beaches in Normandy is one of the most powerful and sobering experiences you can have in France. Scattered ...

The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...

Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944 near Sainte-Mere-Eglise. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War ...

Farther down Omaha Beach at Sector Easy Red, photographer Robert Capa arrived at the shore around 8:15 a.m. with the command group of Company E, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech during an international ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.

"We're bringing 155,000 soldiers on day one. We'll almost double that on day two," said Scott Desjardins, the superintendent of the Normandy American Cemetery. "American soldiers will continue to ...

World War II and D-Day veteran Carl Felton looks out at the English Channel from Omaha Beach while visiting Normandy, France, for the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.

I got to walk on Omaha Beach last month. My wife and I signed on for a Paris-to-Normandy river cruise pre-COVID, then saw our Avalon Waterways trip postponed twice because of the pandemic.

The beach was 800 yards wider at low tide that day, just as it is now. As history well records, bad weather ruled out the 5th. Though the 6th proved better, it was still not a sunny day in France.

Wagner, an Army private, was crammed in the ship with 50 other soldiers, approaching Omaha beach in Normandy. It was D-Day, June 6, 1944, and Wagner felt lucky — he knew how to swim.

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 On D-Day, a roughly 7,000-yard stretch of beach in Normandy, France given the code name "Omaha" proved to be the Allies' biggest obstacle to the success of ...