Fifty years after leading a company of soldiers up Hamburger Hill, Gerald “Bob” Harkins sees the assault against burrowed-in North Vietnamese army forces no differently than he did then.

For Cohasset, Mass., 1969 held the worst eight months of the Vietnam War, when 5 of the town’s soldiers were killed in action, including three from the Cohasset High School Class of 1966.

It was a day that defined the world for generations. On June 6, 1944, about 160,000 American, British and Canadian troops stormed five beaches along a 60-mile front in Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. Seventy-five years later, the world still lives in the shadow of D-Day.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley swore in 21 reenlisting soldiers Friday from the 101st Airborne Division, joined by a 97-year-old former paratrooper who helped liberate this French city 75 years ago.

U.S. frogmen were among the Normandy war dead honored Thursday during a dedication of a Lone Sailor statue on a plaza overlooking Utah Beach. It was one of several ceremonies in the region commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

President Donald Trump joined other world leaders and surviving veterans to remember those who died in in the greatest amphibious invasion in history, which led to the liberation of Western Europe after four years of Nazi occupation.

Twenty men from a small town in rural Virginia were killed on D-Day. With the opening of a new tribute center, their families are finally sharing their mementos, stories and grief.

About 100 Rangers climbed the steep limestone cliffside at Pointe du Hoc to commemorate the historic operation and the 75th Ranger Regiment's role in the D-Day landings, which took a heavy toll on the unit.

Paul Golz was a 19-year-old German private when he was captured by American forces in a Normandy field, three days after the D-Day invasion. Golz says it was a stroke of luck that changed the trajectory of his life.

French noncombatants were killed in connection with a massive bombing campaign by the Allies, which began three months before D-Day to isolate the battlefield ahead of the June 6 ground invasion.