A portrait of U.S. Army Air Corps Tech Sgt. Kenneth McKeeman was on display as family and friends adorned his casket with roses during his burial at the Connecticut State Veterans Ceremony in Middletown, Conn. June 7, 2024. McKeeman was a radioman assigned to the B-24 Liberator aircraft which was shot down off the coast of France in 1944. He was declared unrecoverable at the end of the war, but his remains were identified in 2023 as part of the Department of Defense's ongoing mission to account for and return the remains of missing service members.

‘Welcome home’: Connecticut WWII soldier laid to rest at home 80 years after his death

With all the color, sound, and solemnity of full military honors, U.S. Army Tech Sgt. Kenneth J. McKeeman of Waterbury was finally laid to rest 80 years after he was killed in France during World War II.

World War II veteran Ceo Bauer attends a D-Day commemoration event in Carentan, France, on June 2, 2024. The Michigan native, who is 101 years old, served with the 95th Infantry Division and helped liberate the French city of Metz from German occupation. With the youngest veterans of the war approaching 100, commemorations in Normandy this year were an opportunity to pass the living memory of the period on to younger generations.

Photos | A look back at the 80th anniversary of D-Day

Here are some memorable moments captured by Stars and Stripes from the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

More than 1,300 paratroopers from six countries took part in a commemorative jump into Normandy on June 9, 2024.

6-nation jump into Normandy includes US soldiers whose family members fought tyranny 80 years ago

Among the 1,300 paratroopers from six nations who jumped into Normandy on Sunday were two Americans whose family members helped liberate France 80 years ago.

2nd Lt. Suella Bernard smiles and shakes hands with Lt. Foster, head nurse, while 2nd Lt. Mary Jane Brown of Columbus, Ohio, looks on. Nurses Brown and Bernard were two of the five nurses who brought poppies together with wounded from a beach head in Normandy. The five were first to go on this Ninth Air Force Evacuation mission and first to return with wounded to England.

From the Archives: 5 U.S. Army Nurses Become First Allied Women to Land

Five U.S. Army nurses Saturday [June 10, 1944] became the first Allied women to land in France when they assisted in evacuating by air 14 stretcher cases from the Cherbourg peninsula.

A front view of Chateau Vouilly in Normandy, France, during the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The chateau served as the first Allied press camp during World War II and now hosts visitors commemorating its history.

Chateau Vouilly: The hideaway where war correspondents chronicled the aftermath of D-Day 

The quite hamlet of Chateau Vouilly is where the 1st Army liberated Vouilly during World War II and set up its first press headquarters.

President Joe Biden shakes hands with World War II veteran Calvin Shiner during the D-Day 80th Anniversary commemoration at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on June 6, 2024. Shiner was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President Emmanuel Macron.

‘We will not forget’: Biden praises US, Allied troops at D-Day 80th anniversary ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery

President Joe Biden paid tribute to American and allied troops at a ceremony in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, drawing parallels between the struggles against tyranny during World War II and Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Visitors look at the remains of a world War II landing craft sunk in the sands of Omaha Beach below the Normandy American Cemetery in April 2014. Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes

From the Archives: Riflemen, Navy Teamed to Win In Beach Duel

Naval guns and Army rifles combined to win one of the toughest beachheads the Allied forces have established on the Normandy coast during the past 12 hours.

etr09Cemetery COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes The statue "Spirit of American Youth" rises up from the memorial at Normandy American Cemetery, above the D-Day landing sites at Omaha Beach. It is one of the American cemeteries in Europe that will be holding Veterans Day ceremonies this weekend. (etr# 60p rb)

From the Archives: Infantry Wins Foothold With Terrific Attack

Sheer guts won a foothold on the beach we are attacking. Salt-stained small boatmen, returning from the first wave, are almost reverent in their praise of American Infantrymen who charged the beaches.

American troops participate in a remembrance ceremony at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

Army Rangers who climbed perilous cliff to silence German guns remembered ahead of D-Day anniversary

A few hundred service members and other guests gathered near a famed 100-foot cliff in Normandy on Wednesday, where 80 years ago, one of the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II took place.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Casimir P. Lobacz, who was killed during World War II, will be interred June 17, 2024, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Soldier killed in action during WWII to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery 

Staff Sgt. Casimir P. Lobacz was killed in action during World War II and his remains went unidentified for decades. 80 years later, he will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.