Only 12 Army Rangers who served in World War II are still alive, and they just received Congress' highest award for achievement
The White House and Congress recently recognized the US Army Ranger veterans of World War II.
Rangers played a crucial role in some of the war's most important battles, including D-Day.
Of the 7,000 Rangers who fought in World War II, only a dozen are still alive to receive the award.
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D-Day by the numbers: Here's what it took 78 years ago to pull off the biggest amphibious invasion in history
The scale of the Allied invasion that began 78 years ago, on June 6, 1944, was unlike anything the world had seen before or will most likely ever see again.
An unprecedented landing force of 132,715 Allied troops made landfall at five beaches in Normandy. The landings came at a heavy toll.
By that summer, the Allies had managed to slow the forward march of the powerful German war machine, which was also struggling against Russian forces on the eastern front.
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