The casket of World War II veteran Carl Mann is carried to its final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. Mann was among the troops who stormed Omaha Beach at Normandy.
Sgt. Carl Mann, a native of Mount Vernon, Indiana, was one of the 165,000 Allied troops who invaded the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Thousands of men died that day, but Mann survived the horrific experience and was ultimately involved in all five of the major World War II battles in the European theater, according to his obituary.
When Mann entered New York Harbor at the end of the war, he remembered saying -- as the ship passed the Statue of Liberty --"Old lady, I've been to hell and back for you, and it was worth it," according to the Evansville Courier & Press. The D-Day veteran was buried in Section 59 of Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday. His eldest son, Carl W. Mann II, received the flag from his father's casket. The cemetery in Virginia was a place that Mann had visited during a 2015 Honor Flight trip to Washington.
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