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, ...

Hundreds of people, some in Second World War-era uniforms, arrived before dawn to stretch out across the now peaceful sands of Utah Beach, one of the five Allied landing zones on D-Day where troops ...

My father's service on D-Day 80 years ago – the horror, the sheer hell of crossing the sand that morning – was all something of an abstraction to me. That changed when I saw "Saving Private Ryan," ...

Day, carrying paratroopers and towing gliders across the English Channel. This video revisits their flight path over Utah ...

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 ...

For those of us of a certain generation, June 6 has a special meaning. It is and will always be D-Day, the day American and British forces stormed the beaches of France during World War II. As in past ...

A powerful recollection of Utah Beach where a single smell brings D-Day memories vividly back to life.