Roles: 1  take medical history. 2  examine and treat patients. 3  order and interpret lab tests and xrays. 4  make diagnoses. 5  prescribe medication. 6  anything else an MD does, but in conjunction with the MD. 7  counsel in preventative health care. 8  assist in surgery.
Scroll down to see a clip of Saving Private Ryan, showing the D-Day landing. 1  D-Day veteran Walter Ehlers is shown sitting in a cannon bunker overlooking Omaha Beach in Normandy, France in 1994 - 50 years after the D-Day landings. Ehlers's medal of honour, awarded for his actions during World War II, is shown in his home in Buena Park, California (left).
Had the Allies landed on the Western coast of Denmark on D-Day, the Nazis would have been ready. The German forces had built up the defensive Atlantic Wall, which stretched along the European coast from the top of Norway to south of France, to protect against an invasion launched from Britain.