A Northern California World War II veteran is headed back to France to visit Normandy for the first time since the war.
SACRAMENTO – June 6, 2024 will mark 80 years since the D-Day landings. To honor that anniversary, a number of World War II vets are being flown out to France next week. President Biden is also set to visit and attend commemorations. Dan Dougherty, a longtime Marin County resident who now lives in Fairfield , is one of those vets being flown out as part of American Airlines' Old Glory Honor Flight program.
Dougherty arrived in France several months after D-Day, but he was later part of the unit that liberated the Dachau concentration camp.'We came up on the long train of box cars full of corpses … we were infantry used to death and destruction, but you can't get used to walking up to a train and finding it full of over 2,000 bodies,' Dougherty said. Thursday was also Dougherty's 99th birthday. He is making the trip back to France with his son.
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