An Army historian felt that while the D-Day landing scenes were realistic, the rest of the film was a “typical World War II ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

Bob Sales watched his best friend Captain Dick Wright die, moments after arrival on Omaha beach. Bob was the only man from his boat to survive the landing. George 'Jimmy' Green led the first wave ...

A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly ... lives and shed blood. U.S. First Army soldiers held ...

Unaware of the drama at the Ponte Boch Coxon Jimmy Green was taken from the first wave of American infantry into Omaha beach ... carnage for the troops landing on the beach.

He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day. He discusses the realism of the weapons and strategies ...