How Many D Day Veterans Are Still Alive 2024 Season. The veterans — average age just over 100 years — will be joined on the pilgrimage by about 230 others including medical personnel, u.s. Less than 1% of the 16.4 million americans who served in the armed forces during world war ii were still alive at the end of last year, and 131 are dying every day, according to estimates.
Now bent with age, the dwindling number of world war ii veterans joined a new generation of leaders on thursday to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy on. Though many were teenagers during battle, those.