I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...

Day, the 101st Airborne Division was later assigned to capture Carentan, linking the Utah and Omaha Beach bridgeheads. On the morning of June 6, 1944, Marmion Farm near Ravenoville became a key ...

Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested landings of the Normandy invasion. U.S. forces faced ...

This video features real footage from Omaha Beach, one of the most famous locations of the D-Day invasion during World[...] ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. — Maj. Gen. John C. Raaen Jr., the last surviving U.S. Army Ranger who participated in the initial assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal ...

(KTAL/KMSS) — A group of men played a crucial role in one of the world’s most famous events, and there is a good chance you have never heard their story. World War II was a fraught time for many ...

Maj. Gen. John C. Raaen Jr., the last surviving U.S. Army Ranger who took part in the initial assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day, received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony at The ...

In an interview last week, Raaen, 81 years later, remembers in vivid detail the horror of the pivotal World War II battle on D-Day 1944. He said the grim, opening of “Saving Private ...