Harold Terens, 100, will be marrying his fiancee in France near where he first stepped ashore in that country as a 20-year-old Army corporal in 1944, a few days after the initial landings.
He will be honored in France in June on the 80th anniversary of that country's liberation. Then, he plans on marrying his spry 96-year-old girlfriend, Jeanne Swerlin, near those same beaches. They were both married to others before and started dating each other in 2021.
During the war she was in high school and dated soldiers who gave her war souvenirs like dog tags, knives and even a gun, trying to impress her.
Terens enlisted in 1942 and shipped to Great Britain the following year as a member of a four-pilot P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron as their radio repairman. He said that all four of the original pilots died during the war.
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