Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran William McConahey, who served as a battalion surgeon with the 90th Infantry Division during World War II.
Signalman First Class Paul Kennedy was serving deck duty on the USS Sacramento in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. After the bombings, Kennedy served on the USS Poole and helped escort landing craft crossing the English Channel into Normandy on D-Day.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran John Powell, who landed on Omaha Beach 17 days after D-Day and fought across the Rhineland.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran John William Boehne III, who served with the Amphibious Corps ferrying soldiers to Normandy during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Leo J. Kuefler, who served during World War II from 1942-1946 and landed at Normandy.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Benjamin Alvarado, who served from 1943-1945 as an infantryman for General George S. Patton’s Third Army.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Jules Herman Sitrick, who fought at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran William H. Hall, Jr., who landed on Utah Beach during D-Day and later fought at the Battle of the Bulge.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is James South, a World War II Veteran who deployed to Normandy, France, just seven days after D-Day. South lives in Fort Worth, Texas and will celebrate his 100th birthday on Oct. 7, 2019.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran James Maris, who served during World War II and retired from the Reserves in 1979.
Two Army Veterans, a judge and a renowned photographer, will be honored June 6th, the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, by the New York Mets during the mid-day game at Citi Field.
A young woman retraces her grandfather's steps from D-Day and befriends his fellow survivors. The documentary Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day is a story about memory, inter-generational relationships, and the human desire to commemorate.