Grover Forrest Adams turned 100 August 31, but June 6, 1944, is the date likely to have had the most impact on his life.
That was the day, Adams, a medic in the 1st Battalion Medical Detachment in the 116th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 29th Division, was part of the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach, which an Army military history website calls, “the most defensible (from attack) beach…