Seventy years afterward, some in central Virginia are shedding light on connections between this city and the D-Day invasion in Normandy. University of Virginia professors offered some insight into an important tie to Charlottesville. History professor Stephen Schuker says, in the second wave of troops that arrived in Normandy after the initial invasion, some of those officers were trained to interact with the French locals. Most of those officers graduated from a school right next to UVA.