(6 Jun 2014) World War II veterans who attended D-Day commemorations at Ouistreham, France, on Friday said they were touched by the ceremony.
British veteran Albert Leonard Dickson, 91, who served with the 835 Squadron, said it was emotional being back at Sword Beach as he lost a close friend during the Normandy invasion.
While Clifton John Langeard, 92, a Royal Marine veteran, said he felt like a "film star" due to all the attention at the ceremony.
150-thousand Allied troops risked and lost their lives in the operation on June 6, 1944 which was history's biggest amphibious invasion.
D-Day was a turning point in World War II, cracking Adolf Hitler's western front as the Soviet troops made advances in the east.
Overall at least 4,400 Allied troops were killed the first day, and many thousands more in the ensuing three-month Battle of Normandy, which brought the Allies to Paris to liberate the French capital from Nazi occupation.
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