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 ...

on board a landing craft assault vessel (LCA) in Weymouth harbour, Dorset, 4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront ...

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.

DAN SNOW: If German positions could be damaged before the assault began the troops might stand a fighting chance as they landed on the beach ... American landing craft on route to the beaches ...