D-Day

Though Woodson died at the age of 83, his widow, Joann, is still fighting to get him the Medal of Honor he was denied.

The statue at Utah Beach is the first one located outside the United States.

"While the intent to invade could not be concealed, the location had to be if there was going to be any chance of success."

The web site contains more than 250 million global military records, from pension rolls to enlistment registrations.

The event masks a dispute over where and when to memorialize all those who have earned the nation's highest award for valor.

"Behind the circular breakwaters was a sophisticated system of floating piers anchored to the seabed."

John Trippon threw his body across barbed wire to allow his unit to push inland on D-Day.

The group of 15 plans to jump out of the C-47 "Tico Belle," the same plane that dropped soldiers on D-Day.

The acts of courage didn't stop at D-Day.

Anyone looking for a better appreciation of the military engineering marvels behind D-Day should watch Nova's "D-Day's Sunken...