British D-Day veterans revisit the battlegrounds they liberated 70 years on
to meet French civilians they helped to free from Nazis, changing the course of WWII


Cyril Ager, 90, salutes the thousands of British comrades he landed with on June 6, 1944, each one represented by a flag

It was a scene that was repeated all along the Normandy coastline as some 650 British D-Day veterans gathered for what will be the last formal commemoration of an event that changed the course of World War II. With their families, or in small clusters of medal-wearing ex-servicemen, they were applauded, embraced and congratulated as they revisited the towns they liberated as young men in 1944. Later, many paid their respects to fallen comrades who never came home.