It was a beautiful day in Normandy. Omaha Beach was drenched in sunshine under a blue sky. Birds chirped. The English Channel quietly lapped at the sandy coast. It's hard to imagine that this tranquil ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

Omaha Beach is surely the most famous amphibious landing site in military history. The 1944 D-Day landing in Normandy delivered the first blows of the Allies’ fight to push back Nazi forces and ...

Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...

14.5 x 22.8 cm. (5.7 x 9 in.) »Beachheads of Normandy«, in: LIFE magazine, Vol. 16, No. 25, June 19, 1944, p. 27; Robert Capa, Slightly out of focus, New York 1947 ...

50.4 x 60.6 cm. (19.8 x 23.9 in.) ...