From numerous sources    USA Wrestling has received word that wrestling legend Dean Rockwell of Ypsilanti, Mich., 93, passed away in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Monday.    Rockwell was a coach of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling team. He was a founder and leader with the Michigan Wrestling Club for 50 years, one of the nation's most respected wrestling clubs. He competed in wrestling for Eastern Michigan Univ., and went on to be a successful wrestling coach on the high school and college levels.    Rockwell was a hero during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, for which he received the Navy Cross and the French Croix de Guerre Avec Palm (Cross of War with Palm). On his final visit to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Rockwell was chosen to introduce then-President Bill Clinton about the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington.    According to the Detroit Free Press, a memorial service will be held at noon Oct. 16 at Charles McKenny Hall at EMU in Ypsilanti, Mich. Reservations are necessary.    Rockwell and his wife, Mary, who preceded him in death, were married on December 27, 1941 and were married 54 years. He is survived by three sisters, June Marks, Joyce Sucaet and Ada Gay Follis. He lived in Ypsilanti for 25 years.    At Eastern Michigan, Rockwell was an outstanding athlete, participating in football, track and wrestling. He won the campus heavyweight wrestling championship and remained involved in the sport for the rest of his life.   Rockwell went on to teach and coach wrestling at a number of high schools in Michigan, as well as serving as a football and track and field coach. He was also a football and track coach at Albion College from 1946-48.    He was the wrestling coach at Elberta High School in Detroit from 1935-36 where he was instrumental in starting the first-ever Michigan high school state wrestling championship.  He taught at Flint Bendle High School from 1936-38, and at East Detroit  High School, 1938-42. He coached Michigan Championship high school wrestling teams in 1940, 1941 and 1942 while at East Detroit.    Rockwell was also a professional wrestler known as "the Rock" in the 1930's, prior to joining the Navy.    Rockwell chaired the National AAU Wrestling Committee (1966-68) and was active in all levels of wrestling. He led the U.S. wrestling delegation to the 1968 Olympic Games and attended 11 Summer Olympic Games.    In his book "D-Day, June 6, 1944," author Stephen Ambrose wrote, "By using his courage and common sense, Lt. Dean Rockwell made the single most important command decision of any junior officer on D-Day by ordering his landing craft flotilla to keep their ramps up and drive onto Omaha Beach to deposit their battle tanks."     According to the Detroit Free Press, "Rockwell, who had enlisted in the Navy in 1942, was a group commander of 12 landing crafts that were part of a group of 36 assigned to carry tanks in the first wave of the Normandy invasion. Sensing that the order he was given was a 'recipe for disaster,' he broke radio silence, calling an Army captain and making last-minute adjustments in the plan of attack.     He left coaching in 1943 to become a manufacturing representative and  became founder and president of his own firm. Rockwell founded the Mid-States Ceramic Study Group, lectured and presented papers on ceramics in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. He is author and publisher of "Antique Knife Rests"  (2000) and numerous articles on antique china and glass and on wrestling.    Rockwell was admitted into the Eastern Michigan University Education Hall of Fame and was made an honorary Doctor of Philosophy. He is also a member of EMU's Athletic Hall of Fame.    Donations in Dean Rockwell's memory may be made to the Eastern Michigan University Wrestling Program at 703 Cambridge Rd.; Ypsilanti, MI  48197