Several ceremonies are scheduled to commemorate the 77th anniversary of D-Day that led to the liberation of France and Europe from the German occupation.
Charles Shay, right, the 96-year-old native American from Indian Island, Maine,attends a D-Day ceremony in Carentan, Normandy, Friday, June 4, 2021. In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applauds broke the silence to honor Charles Shay. He was the only veteran to attend the ceremony in Carentan commemorating the 77th anniversary of the assault that led to the end World War II. Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach.
For the second year in a row, anniversary commemorations are marked by virus travel restrictions that have preventedor families of fallen soldiers from the U.S., Britain, Canada and other Allied countries making the trip to France. Only a few officials were allowed exceptions. “At least we remain in a certain spirit of commemoration, which is the most important,” he told The Associated Press.
On D-Day, 4,414 Allied troops lost their lives, 2,501 of them Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. On the German side, several thousand were killed or wounded.
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