U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

whose success was seen as critical to the entire D-Day plan. He and copilot Peter Boyle reached the target using only “a clipboard, and a stopwatch and a little torch on his finger”.

In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

She also says that the soldiers were stunned to be helped by ... Ms Cox continued volunteering for the British Red Cross after D-Day and added in her letter: “As I was unpaid, just a volunteer ...

Nevertheless, soldiers' words relay the many emotions experienced by the men who fought on D-Day. Many of the details of the landing were only learned by friends and relatives long after the ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy ...

This was called D-Day, and it was the beginning of the fall of the Axis powers in Europe. Lam’s diary contains his point of view on the role of Chinese soldiers in the D-Day landings.

Omaha beach is located about 40 minutes by car from Caen in Normandy. 34,000 American soldiers landed there on D Day during the Second World War. But I want to take you beyond the history books and ...

Lam’s diary was special because he was part of D-Day. That is when brave soldiers from many countries stormed the beaches of France to fight against the Axis Powers during World War II.