Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth II Commemorate 75th Anniversary Of ‘D-Day’

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth II, along with 300 veterans, gathered on the south coast of England on Wednesday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day – one of the heroic turning points of World War II.

Other world leaders will join them in Portsmouth for Britain’s national event honouring the Allied cross-Channel invasion of the Normandy beaches in France.

It remains the largest amphibious assault in history, claiming the lives of an estimated 4,400 troops in one day.

Trump, the queen, and British Prime Minister Theresa May will be joined by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel for an event with the veterans, the youngest of whom are now in their 90s.

It will be the last act of Trump’s three-day state visit to Britain.

For starters, Portsmouth was the main staging point for some 156,000 US, British, Canadian and other Allied troops who sailed for the beaches of northern France.

The Battle of Normandy on June 6, 1944, led to the liberation of Europe and helped bring about the end of World War II the following year.

Some 4,000 military personnel, 26 British military aircraft, and 11 British naval vessels will participate, along with presidents and prime ministers from other EU nations, Australia, New Zealand.

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