U.S. D-Day Veterans Gather at Omaha Beach 0 By KMAN Staff on June 6, 2014 AssociatedPress, Video As the sun rose over Omaha Beach in France on Friday D-Day veterans from the US 29th Infantry Division stood at attention alongside serving soldiers at 6:30 a.m., exactly the moment on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops first waded ashore.