In this photo are two brothers who took part together in the D-Day landings in Normandy 82 years ago. Today, one is 104 years old, and the other is 102.
On June 6, the world marked the 82nd anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy—an operation that became a turning point in World War II.
It was then that the Allies opened the long-awaited Western Front in Europe. On the first day alone, more than 150,000 troops crossed the English Channel and landed on the shores of France.
The opening of this front forced Nazi Germany to fight simultaneously in the east and the west. Less than a year later, Berlin fell, and the war in Europe came to an end.
The men in the photo are brothers Hubert Terrell and L.K. Terrell. On D-Day, both played a role in liberating Europe from Nazism—one fought on the ground, the other in the skies.
Under enemy fire, L.K. Terrell crawled across the beach and destroyed two German machine-gun nests with hand grenades. He later recalled that he had learned to throw accurately long before the war while often playing ball with a local baseball player.
His brother Hubert served as a paratrooper and reconnaissance operative. Thanks to his fluency in French, Spanish, and Italian, he carried out five secret missions in occupied France, working with the French Resistance and gathering valuable intelligence for the upcoming Allied invasion.
Eighty-two years later, they are still standing side by side.
Two boys from Louisiana who became part of history.