A vivid account of soldiers facing intense enemy fire on Omaha Beach during D-Day, highlighting courage, tactics, and the ...

Defying every rule of command, General Cota led attacks himself, pushed Rangers forward, blasted paths through wire, and ...

Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France on D-Day.

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.

Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded soldiers to relative safety.

Charles Norman Shay, a Native American who risked his life to save “countless” fellow soldiers during the D-Day landings near Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, died Wednesday at the age of 101.