In this photo dated Thursday May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols talks, during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in La Garenne-Colombes, outside Paris, France. When he left Paris at age 18, the plan was to go to New York for a year and learn his father’s sewing machine trade. Six years later, Bernard Dargols found himself crossing the Channel in a U.S. Army uniform, sloshing ashore on Omaha Beach to a homeland that had persecuted his Jewish family. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)