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SAVING STORIES: A First Hand Account Of The D-Day Invasion

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion we hear from a Kentucky soldier who survived the bloody conflict.

Kentucky native Jesse Beazley was one of the thousands of U-S soldiers who stormed Omaha Beach on the sixth of June, 1944.  Hear his first hand account of that harrowing day that changed his life, not to mention the course of the war in the European theater.

Explore the Nunn Center's entire World War II oral history collection here.

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