A last hurrah for D-Day heroes


Sgt. Bill Becker, 98, a turret gunner during World War 2 and part of a contingent of veterans who travelled to France for DDay.commemorations

FOR many, it will be the last big commemoration. The last reunion.

Eighty years after Allied armies invaded the beaches of Normandy, marking a definitive turning point in World War II, those veterans who are still alive and sound enough returned to France from the United States, Britain and Canada to commemorate the moment – gingerly, slowly, happily.

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