Veterans of the Normandy landings are gathering in advance of the commemoration of D-Day on Sunday, when the Allies landed in France to fight Nazi Germany.
This year only a few veterans of the D-Day landings have travelled to Normandy to honour their fallen comrades on June 6th.
A new memorial to the British veterans who died has been put in place.
Its pillars are engraved with the names of the 22,442 British men and women who died in the landings and in the Battle of Normandy that followed in 1944.
The new one also pays tribute to the 20,000 or so French civilians who died as their country was being liberated from the Germans.
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