The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but

WWII veterans speak of sacrifice and freedom on France`s D-Day battlefields, 81 years later

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago

ByJOHN LEICESTER Associated PressJune 5, 2025, 1:20 AMD-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years преди. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending.

In what they acknowledge may be one of their last hurrahs, a group of nearly two dozen veterans who served in Europe and the Pacific is commemorating the fallen and getting rock-star treatment this week in Normandy — the first patch of mainland France that Allied forces liberated with the June 6, 1944 година, навлизане и най-голямото заседание на кораби и самолети, които са знаели. Нации.

В Нормандия фамилиите предават истории за D-Day като наследства от едно потомство на последващо. Те се насочват към ръкостискания, селфи, целувки...

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