69th anniversary of D-day landings

Normandy veteran Eric Gibbons, 90, looks at the headstones of fallen comrades at a remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the start of the D-day landings at Bayeux War Cemetery in Bayeux, France.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

WW II U.S. veterans salute during the national anthems at a ceremony held at the Memorial of the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, France.  (Remy de la Mauviniere / Associated Press)

A visitor to Bayeux War Cemetery looks at the headstones for British servicemen that were killed during the Normandy campaign at a remembrance and wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the start of the D-day landings in Bayeux, France.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

Normandy veteran Douglas Baines, 89, who was a paratrooper that dropped into Normandy in the early hours of D-day, smokes a cigarette as he visits the Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

Roses are laid on one of the 9,387 graves at the Colleville American military cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer, France  (Remy de la Mauviniere / Associated Press)

A wave covers shells washed up on the beach close to where the allied landings took place in June 1944 near Caen, France.   (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

A man dressed as a World War II soldier walks with a bicycle along Juno Beach in Courseulles-sur-Mer during the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the D-day landing in Normandy.  (Thomas Bregardis / AFP / Getty Images)

A man dressed as a British Second World War soldier leaves a tent at the Merville Gun Battery 2013 near Caen, France.  (Matt Cardy / Getty Images)

People watch an old plane fly above Juno Beach in Courseulles-sur-Mer during the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, France.   (Thomas Bregardis / AFP / Getty Images)