About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

The assault occurred while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was conducting a summit in The Hague, Netherlands.

The second wave was larger than the initial assault wave and took a significant number of casualties. The 115th Infantry Regiment started landing at Omaha Beach at about 10:00 on June 6, 1944.

By the end of the day, the 1st Infantry Division had 1,036 casualties. Hillborn was mortally wounded and died from his wounds on June 6, 1944, during the assault of Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...

"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.

Many of the landing craft ran aground on sandbars and the soldiers had to wade over 100 yards in neck-deep water to get to the beach. Some units of the 1st Infantry Division suffered 30% ...

¶ LST (Landing Ship, Tank), a 328-ft., ocean-going ship with a tank ramp in the bow; ¶ LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) 157 ft. long, 200-troop capacity, with multiple ramps for fast debarkation; ...

The U.S. Marines, known for their resilience and adaptability, rely on amphibious vehicles like the Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV) and its modern successor, the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV).

This was no ordinary assault. Omaha would become the most deadly of the five D-Day landing beaches, as the U.S., U.K. and allied nations attacked Nazi-occupied France in World War II.

As part of the first wave of the largest amphibious assault in history, the regiment was assigned to clear Omaha Beach landing sectors.