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Photos: WWII veterans take flight to Normandy for 78th anniversary of D-Day
A group of World War II veterans took a flight from Atlanta to Normandy to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
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Credit: Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com
WWII Veteran George Hamilton, of Alabama, center left, gets a celebratory hug from Dany Patrix Boucherie, of Normandy, France, before Delta offered a free charter flight for WWII Veterans directly to Normandy, France, at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Atlanta. Delta Airlines and community partner Best Defense Foundation planned the trip in advance of the annual commemoration of the 1944 D-Day invasion. Dany Patrix Boucherie is a special guest for the trip and she is best known as “The Girls Who Wore Freedom,” during the first D-Day commemoration in 1945. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)
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