Tag: Omaha Beach
Normandy Dedicates First Monument to D-Day Naval Demolition Units
A groundbreaking monument honoring the U.S. Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs) and Scouts and Raiders (S&Rs) for their pivotal, yet costly, actions on Omaha...
Michelin North America Sponsors WWII Veterans Embarking on Milestone Return to...
Photo and article courtesy of Michelin.
GREENVILLE, S.C., April 15, 2024 – Michelin North America, Inc., has partnered with the Best Defense Foundation and Delta...
UNESCO Ponders Making D-Day Landing Beaches a World Heritage Site
While considered hallowed ground in many countries, the historic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy, France, have not been seriously considered as a UNESCO World...
Bloody Omaha, Part IV
Fourth in a series
VII
The 16th RCT was scheduled to come ashore at the same hour on the adjacent Easy Red, Fox Green and Fox...
7 Misconceptions About the D-Day Landing at Omaha Beach
On June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 soldiers from the United States and other allied nations invaded the coast of France to overthrow the...
New D-Day Documentary On Our YouTube Channel!
A French family befriends an American soldier at a chateau near Omaha Beach during the June 6, 1944, D-Day landings. Their families remain friends...
US Navy Memorial Postpones Normandy Lone Sailor Dedication to 2022
The United States Navy Memorial will postpone the official ceremony of the Normandy Lone Sailor statue dedication due to the ongoing pandemic. The Dedication...
Bloody Omaha, Part III
Third in a series.
VI
Operation Neptune laid out a carefully organized assault on the beaches. The landing diagram for the 116th Regimental Landing Team (RLT)...
The Maisy Battery
(Photo courtesy of Wikimedia)
Sometime in 1943 the German occupying force in Normandy began construction of a coastal gun battery near the inland village of...
Bloody Omaha, Part II
2nd in the Series...
IV
After baulking at American proposals for eighteen months, serious planning for a cross-Channel attack began in December of 1943, after the...
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