Volunteer parachutists jumped over France's north-west coast on Sunday, kicking off a week of ceremonies to mark 80 years since Allied troops launched their D-Day invasion of Normandy and drove out Nazi occupiers, helping turn the tide of World War II.
On 6 June 1944, soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore or landed from the air across the Normandy coastline, part of the largest ever sea, air and land armada.
