Chattooga County’s only survivor of the D-Day invasion and only surviving Women’s Auxiliary Corps veteran celebrated her 103rd birthday on Sunday.

U.S Army Lt. Rose Jackson served from 1942 to 1946 as a nurse in the European Theater.  In all she served in six campaigns in Europe

Lt. Jackson has related the story of her service in World War II to WZQZ in past interviews.  She was one of about twenty nurses that came onshore in France on June 10, 1944 – just four days after the D-Day invasion that sent the Nazis into retreat as the Allied forces liberated France.

A native of Kansas, Lt. Jackson met her husband in a field hospital and after the war they married and she became a resident of Chattooga County.  She and her husband operated a store in Lyerly for many years.

Yesterday, Georgia’s Adjutant General posted the following salute to 1st Lt. Rose Jackson:

Mrs. Jackson is a faithful member of Lyerly United Methodist Church and continues to live in her own home.

Happy Birthday to a true Chattooga County hero – Rose Jackson.