Are There Any Ww2 Veterans Alive 2024 In America. Veterans of world war ii, many of them centenarians and likely returning to france for one last time, pilgrimaged tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five allied landing beaches. Eighty years after allied armies invaded the beaches of normandy, marking a definitive turning point in world war ii, those veterans who are still alive and sound enough are expected to return.
Department of veterans affairs reporting that approximately 325,000 remain alive today, a. Wwii service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 in 2015.