There are only 119,550 World War II veterans remaining of the 16.1 million Americans who fought in the war, according to 2023 Department of Veteran Affairs statistics. A few WWII vets shared their ...

Friday marks 81 years since the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. The pivotal mission helped free western Europe from Nazi control. This week, World War II veterans are back in Normandy. On those ...

Here's everything to know about D-Day and why it's still so important today. D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return ...

Some of you have flown on trips to Washington, D.C., as an honored veteran or with a loved ... I started working on the WDAY World War II Honor Flight project back in the fall of 2006.

By posing questions, answers from interviews conducted with Speranza and other veterans can be played, preserving not just the stories of World War II ... got his first look at how he'll be ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A 99-year-old veteran is taking a trip back to where he fought for his country in Normandy, France, during World War II. People gathered at the Pittsburgh International ...

WASHINGTON — Sixteen million American men and women served in the nation’s armed forces during World War II ... look around and see places where we stood (together), and it brings back ...

"You look back over your shoulder for someone behind ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Local World War II veterans took off on a historic flight Thursday afternoon to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Eighteen World War II veterans are part of a new ... "On the morning of the invasion, you could look up and as far as you could see in front and back of you and sideways, there wasn’t anything ...

That similarity is one that feels increasingly surprising and special given that the men are two of the just 66,000 or so American veterans of World War II who ... Grove looks back on his time ...

A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany ... to shoot anyone trying to escape Berlin." After he was back in American hands, he was flown to France, where he spent an additional ...

With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces began turning the tide in World War II. On this 80th anniversary of that date, it is good to remember that it's "one ...