The anniversary will be a state occasion. Queen Elizabeth will cross the channel in the Royal Yacht, Britannia. Other chiefs of the old AllianceReagan and Mitterrand and Trudeau, the Queen of The Netherlands, the King of the Belgianswill assemble for the ceremonies before some of them go on to an economic summit in London. They will fly in helicopters over the famous beachesOmaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke and dead bodies,...
D-Day: Fiftieth Anniversary of June 6, 1944
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