The Shingle at Omaha
I took these photos in September 2006 in the Fox Green Sector, Omaha Beach, Normandy, to provide a visual reference for the term "shingle" when encountered in reading about that…
Practicing to Deceive
Photos taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and their British counterparts in Spring 1944 of fake vehicles and other equipment designed to trick the Germans into believing that the…
Meet Rupert!
Most commonly fashioned from burlap, stuffed with straw, and weighted with sand, para-dummies, nicknamed Ruperts,served as a diversion during the airborne phases of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.…
Rudder’s Redoubt
The story of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaling the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day to attack a German artillery battery has captivated many students of Operation…
The Bedford Boys
The men of Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th U.S. Infantry Division were part of the first wave of troops that landed at Omaha Beach at 6:30 a.m. on 6…
Rommel’s Asparagus
Rommel's asparagus (Rommelspargel in German) were 4-to-5-meter-long (13 to 16 feet) logs which the German defenders placed roughly vertically in the fields and meadows of Normandy to cause damage to…