Going Back: Faces of the men who fought at Normandy

Steve Melnikoff who came ashore Normandy, France on D-Day with the 175th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division, sits in his home in Cockeysville, Md., on May 21, 2019. His unit was part of the bloody campaign to capture the French town of Saint-Lo through fields marked by thick hedgerows that provided perfect cover for German troops. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

In this photo taken April 29, 2019, D-Day veteran Jake Larson poses before going for a ride in the “The Spirit of Benovia” World War II-era aircraft in Oakland, Calif. Both Larson and the former C-53 Skytrooper transport plane plan to be in Normandy, France and take part in events for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The plane takes its name after a winery in Sonoma County. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

British D-Day veteran Leonard ‘Ted’ Emmings, who was a naval Coxswain serving on a small landing craft which landed 36 Canadians on Juno beach in France, poses for photographs backdropped by the map used to plan the Normandy D-Day landings at Southwick House near Portsmouth, England, May 9, 2019. Southwick House was the forward headquarters of the allied forces preparing for the invasion of Normandy in 1944, the nerve center of D-Day. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Dennis Trudeau, a World War II veteran who landed in Normandy on D-Day, poses for a photo at his home May, 21, 2019, in Grovetown, Ga. Trudeau had joined the Canadian military at 17 and became a paratrooper in part because they paid an extra $50 a month. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)

British Chelsea Pensioner and D-Day veteran Frank Mouque poses for a portrait during a D-Day 75th anniversary event in the State Apartments at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, May 13, 2019. Mouque, who can’t hear well now and answered media questions by reading them from a piece of paper, was a Sapper and Corporal in the British Royal Engineers. On D-Day he landed on Sword beach and carried with him 21 pounds of explosives to blow down telegraph poles. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

World War II U.S. veteran Frank DeVita, who took part in the D-Day battle poses for a picture at his home in Bridgewater, N.J., May 14, 2019. This June he’ll make his 12th trip back to Normandy. He likes to bring people with him so they’ll know what happened there. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)