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U.S. Navy LSTs and other vessels unloading at low tide at Normandy, soon after the June 1944 invasion. USS LST-55 is in the center, behind the closest barrage balloon. USS LST-61 is at right.

Pope Leo’s ‘greatest generation’ dad served on D-Day tank landing ship

May 12, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II. Read more

U.S. assault troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Father Ignatius Maternowski (shown at left) died that fateful day.

Remembering 3 heroic chaplains on the 80th anniversary of D-Day

Jun 6, 2024

By Joseph Pronechen

The extraordinary courage of these clergymen should never be forgotten. Read more