Veterans who served in the D-Day invasion are dwindling, and most who served and are still alive are in their upper nineties.
Two veterans living at Arbor Landing assisted living in Pawleys Island played big roles in the Normandy invasion to break the Nazi’s grip on France.
“The way we were working, it was just another day,” said 98-year-old Wayne Kellogg, who’s lived in Pawleys Island for 7 years, says he was working so hard that D-Day was just any other day to him.
“We’d get the message from the signal section and it would be just a jumble of words, and we had to pull out the address, make the paragraphs,” he said.
On D-Day, he deciphered messages and sending them out between countries.
Kellogg served in England, France and Germany.
“We knew it was important,” said Kellogg.
Denmark, South Carolina native Harold Ness, who also lives at Arbor Landing in Pawleys Island, says his Air Force bombardment group was for undercover tactics.
He remembers what it was like, loading guns and bombs on the plane that would take part in the invasion, that would reverse the course of World War II.
“My job was to see that the planes were loaded with the equipment they needed for the bombing,” said Ness.
He served in Northamptonshire, England.
“I remember 50 caliber guns, because we had to carry the guns from the warehouse where they were to the plane,” he said.