A 100-year-old D-Day survivor making a return trip to Normandy

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery contains the graves of more than 9,380 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations.