Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches. Visitors can tour the approximately 50-mile stretch of sand and ...

The original code name was "Oregon," but the Army personnel started calling the beach "Utah." Zoom in: Utah was the westernmost of the five D-Day landing sites. Troops there were tasked with ...

Code names for the five beaches where the Allies landed: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. More: Macron helps veteran to his feet, Trump gets a salute: Key moments from Trump's D-Day address in ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

at the eastern end of Gold Beach – which records the names of more than 22,000 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.