80 Years After D-Day, Handful of UK Veterans Return to France to Remember Fallen Comrades

A handful of surviving D-Day veterans wiped their eyes at a commemorative ceremony on Wednesday as King Charles III paid homage to their comrades who lost their lives on the beaches of Normandy 80 years ago. Around 4,400 British, Canadian, and American troops were killed on June 6, 1944 and another 9,000 were wounded or reported as missing in action. On D-Day the British troops were assigned Gold and Sword beaches while the Canadians tackled Juno beach and the U.S. forces hit Utah and Omaha beaches, further west. The king, who was born in 1948, spoke of his “profound sense of gratitude” to those who fought on D-Day to liberate France and roll back the tyranny of Nazi Germany....