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The true story behind the daring escape of WWII veteran Bernard Jordan. GREAT ESCAPER ON MASTERPIECE – Nov. 23 at 9

GREAT ESCAPER ON MASTERPIECE Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 pm Follow the daring escape of Bernard Jordan, an 89-year-old WWII ...
The Telegraph

WWII vets are rock stars in France as they hand over the duty of remembering D-Day

D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday, June 2, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, to the Normandy ...
The Sheboygan Press

‘We were ready for anything’: Sheboygan WWII D-Day soldier to be posthumously honored with Congressional Gold Medal

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...
NOLA.com

Editorial: On D-Day, we remember heroes; WWII museum honors them every day

Editor's Note: This editorial, slightly revised, is published annually as a tribute to D-Day. When the United States put its young men ashore on D-Day 81 years ago tomorrow, they were not alone.
WOOD-TV

WWII veterans speak of sacrifice and freedom on D-Day battlefields after 81 years

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...