Personal accounts from the beaches that changed the world
For those who walked these shores, and those who remember
Private First Class Preston Niland and Sergeant Robert Niland were brothers from Tonawanda, New York. Preston landed with the 22nd Infantry Regiment on the eastern end of Omaha Beach. Robert was a par...
Father Francis Sampson was a Catholic chaplain with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. He landed near Sainte-Mère-Église on D-Day and spent the next three days moving betwe...
Father Francis Sampson was a Catholic chaplain with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. He landed near Sainte-Mère-Église on D-Day and spent the next three days moving betwe...
Private First Class Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was an African-American medic with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion attached to the 1st Infantry Division. When his landing craft from the 629th Tank Dest...
Father Ignatius Maternowski was one of only four Catholic chaplains killed on D-Day. With the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, he landed by glider in the early hours. Despite th...
Bill Millin was Lord Lovat's personal piper with the 1st Special Service Brigade. Under heavy fire on Sword Beach (later moving to support operations near Omaha), Lovat ordered him to pipe the troops ...