A 96-year-old war veteran has had his head shaved into a mohawk style in an effort to lift spirits during the coronavirus pandemic.
Guy Whidden, of Frederick County, Maryland, was a 20-year-old paratrooper when he first styled his hair into a mohawk as a way of intimidating the Germans before D-Day.
Mr Whidden was the only man of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944 to have a mohawk that day and his lieutenant ordered him to shave it off.
Decades later he has once again taken up the style in the hope that it will bring some laughter during the Covid-19 outbreak.
He told CNN: "I knew it would draw some laughs. And I don't have much to do like most of us penned up in our homes."
Mr Whidden achieved the new cut with the help of his granddaughter, Lydia Arshadi, and an electric shaver.
In a video of the event, he tells his audience: "I would like to have my hair cut as a mohawk as we did for D-Day in France and also in Holland, as a tribute to the fallen airborne guys up in skies.
"I challenge all of you."
The war veteran laughed when he saw the end result and said, "I feel like a young buck".
Posting on Facebook, Ms Arshadi said they had been overwhelmed with videos with "military guys from all around the globe" sending in pictures of their own mohawk haircuts.
"It wasn't intentional," said Mr Whidden. "I just thought it would make a happy moment.
"If I can get people to laugh, it makes my day for me, especially in this period of time. It's very difficult for people."
He added that if there was one positive outcome of the pandemic, it was that people had started to come together like they did during the Second World War.
