D-Day anniversary commemorations subdued by pandemic restrictions for 2nd year
The 77th anniversary of D-Day was marked Sunday with several events to commemorate the decisive assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control, and honour those who fell.
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Posted: Jun 06, 2021 7:57 PM ET | Last Updated: June 7
British veteran Capt. David Mylchreest, 97, attends the official opening ceremony of the British Normandy Memorial as a person plays the bagpipes behind him in in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, on Sunday.(Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images)
When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.