On this 76th anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy “D-Day” we wanted to share a transcript of the Battle Honors awarded to the 116th Infantry Regiment who were in the first wave on Omaha Beach and suffered some of the greatest casualties of the day. As approved by Executive Order No. 9296 (Section I, […]
Tag: World War II
A memoir of World War II combat medic, Ray Lambert, who made the landings in Tunisia, Sicily, and Normandy.
A self-portrait of Ugo “Parrot” Milesi sent to his wife through V-Mail.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here […]