June 1944 - amid the flooded fields of Normandy, the 101st Airborne Division fought a desperate battle to capture the town of ...

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, marked a turning point in World War II. Over 150,000 troops landed on French soil, launching one of the largest ...

Crucial to securing the eastern exits from Utah Beach on D-Day, the 101st Airborne Division was later assigned to capture Carentan, linking the Utah and Omaha Beach bridgeheads. On the morning of June ...

Medals didn’t matter on D-Day to soldiers like John Carpenter Raaen, Jr. “Never occurred to me,” said Raaen, now 103, a Winter Park resident and the only surviving Army Ranger who stormed Omaha Beach ...