Published on
06/06/2026 - 20:24 GMT+2
On June 6, 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on what is known as 'D-Day', and they launched 'Operation Overlord' to liberate German-occupied Western Europe.
Over 4,400 Allied troops were killed on that single day, and more than half of them were Americans. The exact number of German casualties on D-Day is not known, but it is estimated between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded or missing.
This year commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Normandy beach landings, with only a handful of war veterans still alive to tell the story. And six of those last veterans have made the journey to France to commemorate the landings at the British Normandy Memorial.
