In Normandy, as the world’s leaders gathered to pay homage to the men who stormed the beaches in 1944 to end Adolf Hitler’s conquest of Europe, new conflict looms.
Forty years ago, US President Ronald Reagan stood on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France and delivered perhaps the finest speech of his time in the White House.King Charles, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron talk following the UK commemorative event at the British Normandy Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, in Ver-Sur-Mer, France.“Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation.
Queen Camilla with King Charles III and French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macro beneath the D-Day Sculpture at the British Normandy Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.Yet Reagan – who was facing re-election at home – warned that America had bitter valuable lessons from two world wars.
About 156,000 soldiers landed on the Normandy beaches: 195,700 naval personnel on almost 7000 vessels. Although the bulk of the forces in the landings were British, American and Canadian, more than a dozen Allied nations participated in the operation. It remains the biggest seaborne invasion in history.
More applause followed when a giant screen showed the Ukrainian leader speaking and embracing US veterans. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska arrive at the international ceremony at Omaha Beach.Mindful of the war in Europe raging 80 years later following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden, King Charles, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron all paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Allied troops who took part.
War again has come to Europe. This image shows a drone view of a building damaged by Russia in the centre of Kyiv.He then echoed Reagan’s message: “Isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today”, and added that “real alliances make us stronger – a lesson that I pray we Americans never forget”.
D-Day veterans are applauded by the crowd after a parade with a Royal Guard Of Honour in Arromanches-les-Bains, France.He also spoke of the war against tyranny, leaving those in attendance with no doubt he was referring to current-day events. US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who directed the invasion, gives the order of “Full victory, nothing else” to paratroopers in England on June 6, 1944, just before they boarded their aeroplanes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of Europe.In the build-up to this year’s commemorations, a survey undertaken by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission found that nearly half of young adults in Britain do not know what D-Day is.
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