America's Most Beloved Veterans Audie Murphy. George Washington. Theodore Roosevelt. Alvin York. George Patton. Dwight Eisenhower. Norman Schwarzkopf. Robert E. Lee.

We think there are currently around 2.4 million veterans living in Great Britain, but this is only an estimate, and little is known about the size of the community or what their needs might be.

Now, assuming that D-Day veterans have died at the same rate as other WWII veterans, we can estimate that 1.8% of the 140,000 are still living. That gives us an estimate of 2,520 D-Day veterans still living in 2021.

The goal of The Veterans Project is to show each participating veteran as they truly are, as a unique person whose decision to serve places them in a special category of allied volunteers.

The Last WWII Veteran on Active Duty Served for Nearly 55 Years After the War. Dr. Earl Russell Fox spent most of his life in and around the military. The son of an Army officer, he was born in an Army hospital in 1919.

This project allows American Legion Department of Texas to hear about your personal experiences and how the organization helped to shape your life.

The people listed below are, or were, the last surviving members of notable groups of World War II veterans, as identified by reliable sources. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945 and, as of 2022, there are still approximately 167,000 living veterans in the United States alone.