D-Day Veterans Go Back To Normandy

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 13

D-Day Veterans Go Back To Normandy

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BAYEAUX (France), June 6. American veterans of the invasion of Normandy, returned to the beaches and the bridgeheads yesterday to remember their comrades who died in the D-Day landings 22 years ago.

The Americans were joined for the opening of two days of ceremonies by French and British veterans who took part in the assault. Veterans of two United States airborne divisions held observances at St. Mere Eglise, the town where American paratroopers dropped to spearhead the June 6, 1944 invasion. Other ceremonies were held at the cathedral in Bayeaux —the first sizeable town to be

liberated—and at the American Military Cemetery at St. Laurent.

Today the British will join the French to commemorate their role in the landings. Remembrance services will be held at Bayeaux Cathedral and later at the cemetery at Colville.

The D-Day ceremonies were linked by the Nortnandy villages this year with the commemoration of another famous invasion—William the Conqueror’s landing in England in 1066. William the Conqueror set out from the same Norman countryside over which the allied forces fought 22 years ago.