80th Anniversary of D-Day commemorated in Seychelles |07 June 2024

Deputy British HC Mathew Harper (foreground) and U.S. embassy chargé d’affaires, Adham Loufti, look on as French Ambassador Olivia Berkeley-Christmann lays a wreath at the cenotaph

Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, the liberation of Europe from the horrors of the Nazis began with Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. Nearly 200,000 soldiers, principally Americans, Brits, and Canadians, landed across five beach sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

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