The longest day remembered
Updated on 05 June 2009
As veterans gather in France to commemorate 65 years since the D-Day landings, Nicholas Glass speaks to WWII veteran Huston Riley who was involved in the Omaha beach landing.
It was the single bloodiest battle on D-Day. American troops coming off their landing crafts died in their thousands - mortared and machine-gunned from the cliffs above by the Germans.
Huston Riley from Seattle was in the first wave - he was 22-years-old. He was the only man from his landing craft to reach the beaches, and in doing so became the subject of one of the great war photographs by Robert Capa.
Huston Riley, now 87, speaks to Arts correspondent Nicholas Glass about storming the beach at Omaha 65 years ago.
