The story of the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum near Granite Falls is part of a series called Lakes Country Treasures. Here, ...

Unbeknownst to the men of LCC 60, the combination of limited visibility with a strong ocean current and winds caused the first wave of landing craft they directed to come ashore about 1,000 to 1,500 ...

2. Utah Beach Landing Museum As the name suggests, this museum focuses on the landing at Utah Beach. But before going in, it’s worth walking around the several memorials outside the museum.

If you don't know what bunker you're looking at, then you might not know it was in the direct landing path of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division on Utah Beach, the westernmost of the D-Day beaches.

But it could have been far worse.” 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.

Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore at Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses on D-Day ...

A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated June 5, 2024, 7:04 a.m.

6:30 a.m.: Beach landings begin. How D-Day progressed on the five beaches Utah: Assaulted by U.S. forces. This beach saw the fewest Allied casualties: 197 troops killed or wounded among 23,000 ...

The 82nd and 101st were dropped to protect the invasion zone’s western extremity and to facilitate the Utah Beach landing force’s movement into the Cotentin Peninsula.