The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...

For anyone who’s ever seen photos of the D-Day invasion ... some 29 American “Donald Duck” amphibious tanks attempted to land at Omaha Beach, but 27 were lost to rough seas.

D-Day on June 6, 1944 was a gargantuan ... and especially the tanks and artillery needed to even the odds in an armored fight. Related stories More than 3,000 landing and transport vessels were ...

(KOLO) - As the world prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I have the rare ... Wally climbed out of a tank trap, a deep ditch used to stop armored vehicles, to see what was happening.

Only a few hundred thousand people visit The Tank Museum ... of around 300 armored vehicles attracts only a few hundred thousand visitors a year, mainly families on rained-out beach vacations.