Memories of D-Day come alive on the beaches where it happened
Every decade, French and international troops honor the events that changed the course of World War II.
Story and Photographs by David Burnett
This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion with a week of special programming. Up first: a tour of underwater D-Day wrecks on the series Drain the Ocean, on June 3 at 9/8c on National Geographic.
I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my visit happened to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the D-Day landings. I was amazed that the French still welcomed American veterans as their liberators—a warm feeling between the countries that still exists today.
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