D-Day photos: Veterans remember the Normandy landings on the 80th anniversary
Veterans of the crucial battle of World War II are disappearing. Europe, faced with a new conflict, remembers what its comrades died for.From Roger CohenPhotographs by Laetitia VanconRoger Cohen reported from Normandy and Laetitia Vancon from Normandy and the United States.June 6, 2024They were normal. The young people from far away who landed on June 6, 1944, under a hail of Nazi gunfire from the cliffs of Normandy, did not consider themselves heroes.No, said Gen. Darryl A. Williams, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, the Allied soldiers “in this great battle were ordinary young men,” young men who “faced this challenge with courage and an extraordinary will to win, because freedom."Facing the general at a ceremony this week in Deauville, on the Normandy coast, were 48 ...