In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy's 20,000 civilian dead

The 80th anniversary this week of the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion on D-Day that punched through Hitler's western defenses and helped precipitate Nazi Germany's surrender 11 months later brings mixed emotions for French survivors of the Battle of Normandy.

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