Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has led Australian tributes marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in World War II, a reminder, he says, that "peace is always worth fighting for".
About 3200 Australian airmen, sailors and soldiers took part in the perilous D-Day campaign in France on June 6, 1944, as their brothers and sisters in arms faced off against Japan closer to home.
The Normandy operation was the largest seaborne invasion the world had ever seen and triggered the beginning of Europe's liberation from the fascist regime of Adolf Hitler.
