Thousands turn out to welcome US WW2 veterans in Sainte Mere Eglise, Normandy where the 82nd Airborne jumped on D-Day.
Bob Reid
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Bob Reid
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Ex-foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in Europe, Asia, Africa, Mideast. Retired Editor-in-Chief Stars&Stripes. US Army vet. All opinions mine.
Greer, SC
Joined February 2009
- World War II veterans visiting Utah Beach one day before the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings
- French hospitality greets US WW2 vets as they finally reach Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The veterans are on a tour organized by American Airlines as a thank-you to members of the “Greatest Generation” now in their twilight years.
00:00 - WW2 veteran returns to “my beach” referring to Utah where he landed as a replacement for those killed in the initial assault. The San Diego native fought across France and was in Belgium when Germany surrendered.
- World War II veterans departing Dallas-Fort Worth airport for Paris to attend ceremonies marking 80th anniversary of D-Day
- Pushing his own wheelchair: WW2 veteran Bill Wall (left) walks to a ceremony June 4 at Omaha Beach. Wall was an aerial gunner on a B-17 during more than 30 combat missions over Europe.
- Henry Langrehr visits Sainte Mere Eglise where he landed June 6, 1944 as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. Langrehr found the greenhouse which he crashed into.
- WW2 vet Henry Langrehr, who jumped into Sainte-Mere-Eglise on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne, heads for a bus Monday from Paris to Normandy. He’s part of a tour by American Airlines to take vets to the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
- WW2 veterans arriving at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport for the June 6 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
- World War II veterans waiting for their charter flight at Dallas-Fort Worth taking them to commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. @starsandstripes
- Two WW2 vets share a moment at Dallas-Fort Worth airport before flying to France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings @starsandstripes
- WW2 vet Walter Stitt waits his turn to board a bus from Paris to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Stitt, a tank soldier, landed at Omaha Beach a month after D-Day and fought across France and Germany, wounded twice in combat.
- French hospitality greets US WW2 vets as they finally reach Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The veterans are on a tour organized by American Airlines as a thank-you to members of the “Greatest Generation” now in their twilight years.
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