World leaders gathered in Normandy on June 6 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, one of the largest military operations in history. At the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer and at Omaha Beach, the few hundred veterans who survived that fatal day were honoured for their bravery as crowds of emotional participants looked on.
In vast contrast to the fog that blurred the horizon on June 6, 1944, the sky was a clear jet blue. Eighty years since the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day to help liberate France from the stranglehold of Nazi occupation, people from around the world had travelled to northern France to honour those who lost their lives that fatal day.
