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    D-Day 70th anniversary in pictures

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    By The Week Staff
    published 5 June 2014
    (Image credit: Peter Macdiarmid)

    World War II veteran Fred Holborn, from the Fleet Air Arm, salutes 20,000 thank you messages from British Legion supporters on one of the D-Day landing beaches in France. Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in which 156,000 troops from the allied countries launched an attack on the beaches of Normandy which began the liberation of Europe.

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    Veterans Owen Butcher (left) and Fred Roberts (right) sit on a bus heading from Essex to France for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. A series of events are planned for the week, with many heads of state travelling to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects to those who lost their lives.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    French military enthusiasts walk on Utah beach near Saint Marie du Mont, France.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    Veteran Raymond Shuck, a former paratrooper, smokes a cigarette as he visits the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth before catching a ferry to France.

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    D-Day re-enactment enthusiasts dressed as World War II American soldiers relax at their camp near Utah Beach in Sainte Marie du Mont, France.

    (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images)

    British World War II veterans support one another at the Ranville War Cemetery in Normandy.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    Soldiers on a vintage jeep drive past the Pegasus Bridge and Cafe Gondree, the first house in France to be liberated during the last hour of 5 June 1944.

    (Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

    Veteran Pat Churchill, who landed with the 2nd Royal Marines Armoured Support Regiment at Juno Beach on D-Day, stands with his wife Karin on a ferry to Caen.

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