(NEXSTAR) – Looking around Omaha Beach ... they also said they collected sand from Utah Beach, one of four other landing sites in Normandy on D-Day, but found no shrapnel at all in that sample.

Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day ... too much like "Omaha" on radios. The original code name was "Oregon," but the Army personnel started calling the beach "Utah." ...

Two years ago today, on the 73rd anniversary of D-Day, in a park overlooking Omaha Beach ... the Charles Shay Memorial; and the Utah Beach American Memorial, where they will honor 30 Comanche ...

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the ... led the first American troops onto Utah Beach during the D-Day landings sold for $514,000 at a ...

She was there at the cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach on the D-Day anniversary, meeting the President of the United States and the First Lady. For a quiet farm girl who never sought attention ...

Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

Casualties varied widely - on "Bloody Omaha", where around ... 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach The fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had ...

Foggo III, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, and the U.S. Navy Memorial joined forces to dedicate The Lone Sailor statue at Utah Beach during the 75th Anniversary of D-Day on June ...

Lino Covarrubias, head of Jewish Family Services of MetroWest and a Navy veteran, is master of ceremonies for Framingham's ...