Battling rough seas with five-foot waves, thrashing wind gusts and heavy enemy fire, U.S. Navy amphibious landing craft attacking Utah Beach on D-Day managed to achieve total tactical surprise.

Battling rough seas with five-foot waves, thrashing wind gusts and heavy enemy fire, U.S. Navy amphibious landing craft attacking Utah Beach on D-Day actually managed to achieve total tactical ...

Retired Army Lt. Col. Rex Smith recalls landing at Utah Beach during the Allies' invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. ... A pair of landing craft hit Utah Beach in Normandy, France, June 1944.

D-Day. June 6, 1944. The words bring to mind images of hundreds of landing craft, machines, and American fighting forces landing on the beaches of faraway places. D-Day was the largest seaborne ...

From tapes left by her father-in-law, Amy Calder shares an oral archive of his exploits during World War II.

At just 18, my dad landed with the first wave at Utah Beach and fought for the next month, until a ... American soldiers leave a landing craft under fire, on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

The invasion was postponed for 24 hours because of rough weather; then, on the morning of June 5th, an armada of 3,000 landing craft, 2,500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels, escorts and ...

“We came in on a landing craft with the front down, and we jumped into the water,” Army veteran Don Parker recalled of landing on Utah Beach a few days later. “They had some – we’ll call ...

June 6), here is a small bit of history for Utah Beach. The first U.S. soldier off the landing craft ramp was Capt. (later, Col.) Leonard T. “Max” Schroeder.

With the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings coming next month, most Americans visiting France’s D-Day sites will focus on Omaha Beach. But if you’re planning to visit Normandy this ...

A dress rehearsal for the D-Day assault on Utah Beach cost the 4th Infantry Division and associated units nearly four times as many lives as they lost in the landing itself five weeks later. The ...