Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60. That he was so ...

Carried by the now-iconic landing crafts known as LCVPs, infantry troops begin their assault on Utah Beach. Leading the first wave is one of the great heroes of D-Day, Brigadier General Theodore ...