(4 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caen, France – 4 June 2024
1. Various of ferry carrying D-Day veterans arriving in Caen
2. Various of bagpipers
3. Various of cars carrying veterans arriving, veterans exiting and standing by cars
4. Mid of woman holding Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Torch of Commemoration
5. Plane flying by
6. Veteran walking by vehicles
7. Veteran being handed Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Torch of Commemoration
8. Various of veteran passing over torch to young person and posing for photos
9. Various of veterans posing for photos with torch
STORYLINE:
British veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, travelled by ferry from southern England across the English Channel that 23,000 Allied airborne troops flew over to drop on D-Day into Normandy.
More than 132,000 others also crossed aboard thousands of ships that stretched as far as eyes could see, landing on Utah and Omaha and three other code-named beaches: Gold, Juno and Sword.
Veterans on Tuesday disembarked the Mont St. Michel ferry with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) Torch of Commemoration.
Ahead of the D-Day anniversary, the torch has travelled across the UK to some of its most well known cemeteries and memorials.
The final leg of its journey sees it travel to France for the Great Vigil, to remember those who fell on D-Day and in the Battle of Normandy.
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