A hero's welcome for the men who helped change the course of history. Back on French soil, saluted and celebrated as most returned for the last time.
These veterans were young mean. Some, teenagers eight decades ago all here on that fateful day when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy.
Floyd Blair is 103. Dick Rung turns 100 in the fall. He was just 19 on a transport boat taking tanks to shore. Floyd flew above, giving cover to ground troops during the invasion.
"To me, it looks like every ship and boat in the world was right out there," Blair said. "But yeah, the thing is the dead bodies were already washing to shore when I got here."
June 6, 1944. D-Day. The U.S. and its allied forces stormed the beaches, breaking through Nazi defenses in a massive assault that would lead to allied victory in World War II.
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