George, you see, as a young US Army officer, landed on Omaha Beach during the famed D-Day invasion of Europe 73 years ago, on June 6, 1944. The last time I saw him, on Christmas Day 1998, he looked at me with misty eyes, threw down the rest of his bourbon and said that D-Day will forever be remembered as the greatest day of the 20th century. In the late spring of 1944, World War II was in its fifth year in Europe. The men of D-Day knew they could not fail. Three battalions from the veteran 352th Infantry Division were dug in defending the area known as Omaha Beach.

Source: Fox News June 06, 2017 16:12 UTC