WORLD / EUROPE ‘Long overdue’ commemoration of historic battle to defeat WWII Nazis By AFP Published: Jun 06, 2021 05:23 PM A veteran attends an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy, France, June 4, 2019. Photo:XinhuaA memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles was expected to be unveiled on Sunday in northern France, a tribute seen as a long overdue commemoration of their sacrifice. The British Normandy Memorial, inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the invasion of Nazi-occupied France in the summer of 1944, would open on a hillside in the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer on the 77th anniversary of the landings.