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 ...

Landing craft 92 had left the English Channel port of Weymouth on the evening of June 5, 1944, and now ... a mine and caught fire as it headed to Omaha Beach. But this year, the Defense Department ...

is a 5-mile stretch of beach that was once called Côte d’Or, or “golden coast.” Since June 6, 1944, however, this beach has borne a different name: Omaha. Eighty years ago, on a day now ...

The Lebrec family has owned the property since 1922. American troops heroically stormed ashore on Omaha Beach, about two miles east of the Lebrec farmhouse, under deadly fire on what’s gone down ...