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Confidence votes 680. As of September 30th, 2011, there are roughly 2,889,000 WWII veterans alive in the USA according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Worldwide, there are about 5,250,000 still around as of late 2011.
Of the 16 million U.S. soldiers who served in World War Two, only 1.7 million are still alive, leaving an ageing population to tell their stories from D-Day and other campaigns. The World War II veteran recalls his time on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. Ehlers said: 'A lot of kids have not the least idea of what America went through, in other words the tremendous effort that America put into this war'.