D-Day veteran Dick Rung was 19 when he was assigned to a tank landing craft that landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Now 99, the memory is still alive as he recounts time spent hosing down the ...
"We want to be able to say that this medal came from Omaha Beach ... in 1994 about how his landing craft came under intense fire from German gunners as it approached the beach.
He asked to train for amphibious operations, hoping to be the skipper of a landing craft. Seasickness made ... vehicles and supplies safely ashore on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, D Day.
George 'Jimmy' Green led the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach. Known as the suicide wave due to the high rate of casualties, none of the troops from his landing craft survived.