Archive for: D-Day

Return to Normandy

By Chris O'Connell

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Flying Longhorns paid tribute. Omaha Beach,” Frank Denius says. “That’s where I crawled up.” Holding court on the...

The Geology of War

By Marc Airhart

On D-Day—June 6, 1944—more than 34,000 Allied troops poured from planes and ships onto Normandy’s Omaha Beach. Today, though all visible signs of the battle...