Photos: Veterans Remember D-Day, 70 Years Later

By Newsweek Staff On 6/6/14 at 12:18 PM EDT

On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded France in their fight against the Nazis in World War II. Veterans returned to the beaches and the small towns of northern France to remember.

6.6_D_Day_70th_01 — Photos: Veterans Remember D-Day, 70 Years Later Toby Melville/Reuters

On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded France in their fight against the Nazis in World War II. Veterans returned to the beaches and the small towns of northern France to remember.

British D-Day veteran, Leonard Bloomfield, aged 93, who served in the British Navy, views gravestones at a British-French commemoration ceremony at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Bayeux, Normandy June 6, 2014. Toby Melville/Reuters