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, ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

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

"He's a D-Day veteran and he was a Royal Marine on a landing craft operating the big guns to protect the troops that were landing. The whole family is very proud of him." Robert Bellfield ...

U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. read more US Navy/Getty Images / Getty Images ...

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and ... their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds a ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings ... Bob was the only man from his boat to survive the landing. George 'Jimmy' Green led the first wave of Americans ...