The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...

Just steps away, thousands of men splashed ashore on Omaha Beach, stumbling into a cauldron of horrors, including a torrent of machine-gun fire, exploding mines and screams of wounded comrades in ...

Day, June 6, 1944. In this video, we revisit the brutal reality faced by American troops as they stormed the heavily fortified coastline under relentless German fire. From the deadly bluffs to the ...

Farther down Omaha Beach at Sector Easy Red, photographer Robert Capa arrived at the shore around 8:15 a.m. with the command group of Company E, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.

Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.

Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 On D-Day, a roughly 7,000-yard stretch of beach in Normandy, France given the code name "Omaha" proved to be the Allies' biggest obstacle to the success of ...

When D-Day dawned June 6, 1944, and U.S. soldiers — at horrific cost — stormed Omaha Beach, Eyler was just offshore aboard Bradley’s flagship, the cruiser Augusta.

As I crouch down and gather the sand of Omaha Beach, I tell myself there's no way I could ever come here and frolic. No books, documentaries or movies can prepare you for the flood of emotion that ...

Omaha Beach’s trainer Richard Mandella detailed what the team observed from the horse that caused them to be concerned. “After training this morning we noticed him cough a few times ...

Omaha Beach will also not race at the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. With the horse out, Kentucky Derby odds changed. Game Winner was at 5-1 but is now the new favorite at 9/2.