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 ...

A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings ... by withering fire in the June 6, 1944, landings in Normandy, northern ...