Hundreds of the last
surviving D-Day veterans have gathered on both sides of the English
Channel, 70 years on from the momentous World War Two mission.
A spectacular Red Arrows display in Southsea and parachute drop in France came on the eve of the anniversary. The Princess Royal was at the drumhead ceremony in Portsmouth, where on 5 June 1944 troops were preparing to invade Nazi-occupied France.
Between 2,500 and 4,000 Allied troops are thought to have died the next day.
As many as 9,000 Germans are also estimated to have lost their lives when around 156,000 troops, mainly from Britain, the US and Canada landed on Normandy's beaches in one of World War Two's key turning points.
'Killing field'
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