Omaha. Utah. To many citizens of recent generations educated in the United States, Omaha and Utah are simply a city and a ...

LONDON—D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors he witnessed escorting US troops to the beaches of northern France ...

Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944, was one ...

D-Day veteran George Chandler ... of a flotilla of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings. He was on board as the sun rose on June 6 ...

George was 19 when he was dispatched with the 59th flotilla on June 6, 1944, to escort the US army assault on Omaha and Utah ...

George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life, was to have led the Blind Veterans UK ...

FILE - British Normandy campaign veteran George Chandler of the Royal Navy speaks to the media and poses in the 'Map Room' which shows the large diagram of the D-Day ... to Omaha and Utah beaches ...

Alastair Grant/AP) LONDON — D-Day veteran George Chandler ... of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings. He was on board as the sun ...

George Chandler, who served on a British motor torpedo boat during the 1944 D-Day landings ... vessels that escorted US Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings.

On day five, your first stop will be at the Pegasus Bridge Memorial, where early on D-Day, British gliders landed ... you'll make your way to the famous Omaha Beach — where you can remember ...