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It was the largest sea and airborne invasion the world had ever seen and one of the great turning points of 20th century history. alfred was just 17 years old, an able seaman in the royal navy. we didn't really know a great deal because we weren't told a lot. we were told, "you're going," you know, "you'll be in action tomorrow," and all the big guns would be going off, which they did. his battleship, hms ramillies, arrived that morning at sword beach on the north west coast of france. oh, what we saw was the main thing that i can't forget. it was all them young lads, running and climbing up t...

As there was this morning, to mark the beginning of the 80th commemoration of dday. in 1944, the piper was bill millin, from glasgow — just 21 years old, dressed in his farther kilt, and armed only with a dagger. he was part of the first commando brigade that landed on sword beach. in the years after the war, the german snipers said they had spared bill because they thought he had gone mad. and so the legend was born. never before or since have so many troops from so many nations landed by sea to liberate an occupied country. the significance of that moment, to our shared history, was reflec...

OMAHA BEACH, France — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to battle the Nazis. Now bent with age, the dwindling number of World War II veterans

As young soldiers they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to fight the Nazis. A dwindling number of World War II veterans were joined by a new generation of leaders

The war in Ukraine shadowed the ceremonies in Normandy, a grim modern-day example of lives and cities that are again suffering through war in Europe.