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Dodging enemy fire on Omaha Beach

A vivid account of soldiers facing intense enemy fire on Omaha Beach during D-Day, highlighting courage, tactics, and the ...
Omaha Beach was supposed to fall quickly. Instead, it turned into a slaughter. Pinned down by machine guns, mines, and ...
On a damp still morning in September 1944, more than three months after D-Day and the “Impossible Mission” at Point du Hoc, ...
Charles Norman Shay died Dec. 3 at age 101. He was a citizen of the Penobscot Nation who saved fellow soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.
PARIS (AP) -- Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay ...