"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.

“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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

To prepare for the landing on Utah Beach, Slapton Sands and Torcross—two beaches near Plymouth—were chosen. For this purpose, by the end of 1943, more than 3,000 people and 180 farms in the ...

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 ...

The first of 15,500 paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st U.S. Airborne are dropped near Carentan. They battle German forces and clear exits for U.S. infantry landing on Utah Beach.

“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 ...