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STORY: :: U.S. WWII veterans heading to Normandy for the 80th D-Day anniversary receive a jubilant send-off

:: June 2, 2024

:: Atlanta, Georgia

:: Enoch 'Woody' Woodhouse, WWII veteran

::"I served with the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of pilots in the air, and during World War two. We did not go to France. They kept us in North Africa and Italy. However, as a World War Two veteran. I'm proud to be here with a wonderful organization to show what patriotism means."

::Mae Krier, Former Boeing riveter

::"I was a riveter, I built B17's and B-29's. I worked on the wing section of the B-17, mostly. I go out there and promote women all the time. It's not a man's world anymore. Women are just as capable as men, sometimes more... Don't tell them that."'

:: Richard Ramsey, U.S. Navy veteran

:: "I was on a battleship, Nevada, and they gave the order to commence firing, and we fired the first shots to start the invasion, and we are on battle stations for 80 straight hours. We launched four destroyers at night. There's plenty of radio-controlled bombs, mines. All kinds of stuff from the sky."

Cheers, applauds and hearty "thank you's were heard as a band played for the veterans, who are in their late 90's or100-years old.

Alongside the military veterans were a women who are referred to as "Rosie the riveter" and worked in factories assembling machinery for the war effort.

More than 150,000 Allied troops launched the air, sea and land D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, an operation that ultimately led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany.