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).
Allied forces rehearsed their D-Day roles for months before the invasion. On 28 April 1944, in south Devon on the English coast, 638 U.S. soldiers and sailors were killed when German torpedo boats surprised one of these landing exercises, Exercise Tiger.his article is about the first few weeks of the invasion of Normandy. The first day of the landings (commonly known as D-Day) is covered in more detail at Normandy landings. For earlier invasions of Normandy in other wars, see Invasions of Normandy (disambiguation) .