D-Day 66th Anniversary

D-Day anniversary. 66 years since the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of France.

A German gun position at Utah-Beach.

Higgins Boat, an Allied light landing craft, near Utah-Beach Museum, La Manche.

And the Moissy Ford in the Orne - the Corridor of Death, the last narrow escape route of German forces trying to avoid encirclement by the Allies.

The Montormel Memorial

A Polish tank stands over the 'Falaise pocket', a vast valley where the battle of Normandy came to an end in August 1944. Advance Polish troops closed the Falaise gap near Montormel finishing the encirclement of the German Army.