In northern France, a group of volunteers has spent months renovating the command post of the Merville gun battery – one of the main defences built by the Germans and attacked by British paratroopers in preparation for the Normandy Landings. The team hopes their work of remembrance will draw in visitors on D-Day and beyond.
Each year on 6 June, France commemorates D-Day, when some 156,000 mainly British, American and Canadian troops launched a massive invasion to try and free France from Nazi occupation.
