Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later

World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat.

Few witnesses remain who remember the Allied assault. The Associated Press is speaking to veterans about their role in freeing Europe from the Nazis, and their messages for younger generations.

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“I am the luckiest man in the world,” D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 101-year-old