The Rock County, Minnesota honor roll, a monument to the youth who served in the armed forces.

Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson

Quentin and Jackie Aanenson on the boardwalk at Atlantic City during their honeymoon in 1945.

Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson

Quentin and Jackie Aanenson descend the church steps on their wedding day. They exchanged letters regularly while Quentin served overseas piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt.

Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson

Al McIntosh was born in 1905 in Park River, North Dakota. His father was a Presbyterian minister and the family moved around a great deal during his childhood. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1928 and went to work for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal, taking photographs as well . . .

Selections from "Selected Chaff: The wartime columns of Al McIntosh."

Largest land battle on the Western Front during World War II and the largest engagement ever fought by the U.S. Army. In early December 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned major offensives in the northern and southern sectors of the Western Front. To ensure sufficient power for . . .

In Belgium, an exposed member of the 82nd Airborne Division scrambles for cover. December 24, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-197861)

On June 6, 1944, D-Day in the European Theater, a million and a half Allied troops embark on one of the greatest invasions in history: the invasion of France.

Operation OVERLORD, the invasion of Normandy, France, on 6 June 1944, was the Western Allies' greatest operation of World War II and the finest hour of Anglo-American cooperation. Only the United States and the British Empire could have successfully undertaken the largest and most dangerous amphibious assault in history. The . . .

As seen from a Coast Guard landing barge, the first wave of American soldiers approaches the shores of Normandy, France, June 6, 1944

Source: National Archives (26-G-237)

American soldiers, under German artillery fire, disembark from a landing craft off the shores of Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of France. June 6, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-189906 ?)

The news of D-Day reaches across America

A landing craft packed with soldiers approaches the shores of Normandy, France. June 6, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-320901)

Johnny Bathurst, a friend of Quentin Aanenson's, in front of "Duffy's Tavern," their hangout at camp.

Source: Quentin Aanenson

Jackie Greer was born February 18, 1923 in northern Louisiana. Her father was a teacher and school principal. She spent a year at Monroe Louisiana Junior College, then attended Louisiana Tech in Ruston. In the summer of l941 after her second year of college, Greer's father was . . .

Portrait of Jackie Greer. She married pilot Quentin, who she wrote often during the war.

Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson

A Civil War monument in front of the Luverne Courthouse, 1941. The cannon and cannon balls would later be donated as scrap.

Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota

A soldier joins farmers harvesting crops in Luverne, 1942.

Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota

In Luverne, an audience of male farmers examine corralled pigs. 1941.

Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota

Boys gather to fish at a pond near Luverne, Minnesota. 1941

Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota