Seventy six years ago, American soldiers faced a crisis.

Adorned with Captains bars and the Ivy Cross of the 4th Infantry Division, the M-1 Helmet of Captain Leonard T. Schroeder has a very unique history associated with it.

How a Signal Corps photographic team took one of the most iconic images of Omaha Beach.

Slapton Sands taught the Allies lessons, at a high price.

Career newspaper photographer Eliot Kamenitz reflects on his father’s role as a glider pilot on D-Day and in two other military actions in Europe, and the pivotal importance of the D-Day experience in his father’s life.

Witmeyer describes the fighting in the bocage in Normandy, and how the casualties were so severe that the massive loss of life, especially his own troops caused him to lose his humanity and change from a civilian to a killer.

Walking the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, imagining the unlived lives of the D-Day dead.

Admiral Bertram Ramsay’s final diary entry reflects all that was at stake on the night before D-Day.

The sands of Omaha Beach keep the memory alive of those who fought on its shore to restore freedom.

The drama of D-Day inspires historian Stephen Ambrose to greater ambitions.

On the eve of D-Day, a visit with the 101st Airborne, then the waiting.

 A visit to a bunker where German troops watched and waited for the invasion of France.