Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine shakes hands with former U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph J. Drake, a 100-year-old U.S. Army Ranger and World War II veteran, before a ceremony awarding Drake the Congressional Gold Medal in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., June 26, 2025. Only one of five surviving Army Rangers who served in WWII, Drake fought in the Battle of the Bulge with Ranger Company A, 2nd Ranger Infantry Battalion, and helped liberate Buchenwald, one of the first and largest of the concentration camps in Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Bernardo Fuller)
| Date Taken: | 06.26.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 06.30.2025 13:31 |
| Photo ID: | 9140235 |
| VIRIN: | 250626-A-AJ780-1009 |
| Resolution: | 5917x4734 |
| Size: | 22.16 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
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