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On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, paratroopers - including 97-year old American D-Day veteran Tom Rice - leap out of aircraft over the Normandy countryside, in tribute to the soldiers who participated in the Allied Landings in Normandy on 6 June 6 1944. IMAGES
Paratroopers land on Omaha Beach during the international ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, to commemorate the 500 paratroopers dropped by the British air force in the Normandy skies on the night of 5 to 6 June 1944 during Operation Overlord to open up a new front against Nazi Germany. IMAGES
Britain pays tribute to the UK's war dead in a national wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial in central London, but without the usual veterans marching or crowds watching because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES of the ceremony
French President Emmanuel Macron pays tribute to the 177 so-called Kieffer Commandos who landed on June 6, 1944, in the presence of one of the three surviving marine riflemen. IMAGES
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandie, French President Emmanuel Macron becomes the first president to pay tribute to some 70 resistance fighters executed by the Nazi regime in a Caen prison on 6 June 1944. IMAGES
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