No one knows how many D-Day veterans lived in Park Forest, but one who did, Tom McDade helped forge an unbreakable connection between those two points on the map ... landed on Utah Beach in ...

The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah beaches ... war planners created 17 million maps to support D-Day operations. A large number of ships in front of Omaha Beach delivering troops, equipment ...

Day beaches in Normandy is one of the most powerful and sobering experiences you can have in France. Scattered along the ...

The landing zones for D-Day were code-named as part of the massive effort to maintain secrecy. The Americans landed at Omaha and Utah beaches ... 17 million maps to support D-Day operations. A large ...

4. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower added Utah Beach to D-Day because he worried that, without it, the Allies would have difficulty eventually capturing the city of Cherbourg on the north end of the peninsula.

How did Utah and Omaha beaches — two chunks ... was that he had shrapnel inside of him and that, after D-Day, he was on a Normandy beach with other soldiers when a German jet — one of the ...

A public event to honor D-Day will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday at the Memorial Park Pavilions at 313 Hancock Ave.

Amid this inferno, 20-year-old Utah native Donald William Pullan – assigned to the 911th Air Engineering Squadron – arrived four days after D-Day, jumping into waist-deep water, his boots sinking into ...

ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) — 81 years ago, World War II allies invaded Normandy, liberating France and Western Europe, and laying the path to victory. “We came in on a landing craft with the front ...