(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." ...

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 ...

D-Day veteran George Chandler ... of a flotilla of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings. He was on board as the sun rose on June 6 ...

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 ...

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