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Jack Seale, Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: solemn, striking tribute to the fallen heroes of D-day

Artworks of silhouettes of soliders placed across a beach in Normandy
Honouring those who took part and those who didn’t make it home … D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen. Photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen

8.30pm, BBC One
Today is the eve of the D-day anniversary, 80 years since thousands of men waited on English soil for the signal to launch the invasion of Normandy. Now, at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Bayeux, a ceremony is held to honour those who completed their mission and commemorate those who didn’t make it. The climax, at nightfall, will see 4,600 headstones lit up. Jack Seale

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