only on al jazeera america. joom >>> the 70th anniversary of d-day marked in europe.lose to home a community will not for get. bedford virginia has a tragic plajs suffering more losses -- place suffering more losses per capita than any other community in the nailings. instead of -- nation. instead of turning its back, they embrace d-day. >>> june 6, 1944, dawned over cast the the sea was rough. 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircast. 150,000 men. and that was on day one. the most ambitious invasion. in 1944 buster shave was an 18-year-old ship's mechanic. he joined the navy for one month after graduating high school. on d-day, shave was one of the 150,000 men. his task to keep the engineses running. on board the landing craft 30 heavily armed american soldiers. how long would it take for those 30 men on the boat to get off? >> about 10-12 seconds. it didn't take long. >> buster made three round trips, each time under fire, nor the days that followed. >> i tried to put it out of my mind for years. they built this memorial, it brought back a lot of memories. >> reporter: before th