Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 6, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. I have always wondered about Utah Beach. On June 6, ...

Note to readers • This story was originally published on June 2, 2014. It’s an obscure mystery in the annals of World War II history. How did Utah and Omaha beaches — two chunks of French sand that ...

Traveling by ship across the English Channel the night of June 12, 1944, my father was below deck with the vehicle he would soon drive ashore at Utah Beach to face combat in World War II at last, ...

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 ...

Normandy, France, June 1994: Fifty years after allied troops landed on Utah Beach to begin the push toward Berlin that ended World War II, a boy engages in the kind of struggle beaches are more suited ...

This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. Uncredited / ASSOCIATED ...

An unsound operation of war -- Steadfast and loyal -- Overture to Overlord -- Night of nights -- Hitting the silk -- All-Americans -- So this is France -- Get in there and take chances -- Something to ...