This column was originally published on June 6, 2012. Benjamin Hays Vandervoort was a 29-year-old enlisted man with a bride back home when he became an American hero on D-Day. His role was made ...

Vandervoort, a hero of the D-Day invasion whose story was one of many portrayed in the movie The Longest Day, died Sunday on Hilton Head Island, S.C. He was 75. Vandervoort, then a lieutenant ...