Normandy remembers D-Day soldiers

Normandy today planned to mark the 62nd anniversary of the D-Day landings that changed the course of the Second World War with a military ceremony and veterans’ talks to French schoolchildren.

The official ceremony was to take place in Asnelles-sur-Mer, part of Gold Beach, where soldiers went ashore for the June 6, 1944, Allied landings that freed France from Nazi Germany’s grip.