World War II veteran John “Harry” Kellers beamed from his folding chair Sunday morning, underneath a shade tent in the ...

Not only did Proffitt get himself to safety, he managed to get all of the 30 men in his landing craft up the beach, through volley after volley of machine gun and artillery fire, alive.

Coast Guardsmen manned 99 warships and large landing vessels for Operation Neptune, the naval component of D-Day involving more than 6,900 ships and landing craft, including about 1,500 Higgins ...

Every window was a machine gun; ... 1944, Canadian soldiers spilled out of landing crafts and met their fates. ... A Royal Canadian Navy landing craft heads toward Juno Beach on D-Day.

Men going ashore, particularly at Omaha Beach, but on the other invasion beaches as well, faced a withering storm of lead from German machine gun emplacements as the ramps of their landing craft ...

As the troops were offloading, machine gun and sniper fire was sweeping the beach. Mortar and artillery fire zeroed in on the troops departing the landing crafts before they reached the beach.

Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later in modern combat.

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 ...

To combat this, one of the major elements of D-Day was to use airborne troops to secure the edges of the landing area. and focus on destroying or occupying bridges and eliminating gun emplacements.

FILE - D-Day veterans, (L-R) Ken Hay, Richard Aldred, Henry Rice, Jim Grant and John Dennet pose for a picture on Sword Beach following the Spirit of Normandy Trust service in Coleville-Montgomery ...

The huge landing crafts had a difficult time getting close to the shores. Some of the rafts overflowing with soldiers sunk causing many soldiers to drown, while guns and ammo got soaked.

But on June 6, 1944, when the allies began the D-Day landings, they were forced to land at low tide in order to see all the German coastal defenses and were left vulnerable to intense machine gun ...