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D-Day 75th anniversary

Art

Phillip Toledano uses AI to reimagine Robert Capa's lost D-Day photos

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United Kingdom

Emmanuel Macron reads last letter of French Resistance fighter

French president reads the testimony of a 16-year-old French resistance fighter who was executed for helping with the D-Day landings

World

Raw Politics in full: D-Day remembered and Denmark elections

Catch the full episode of Thursday's Raw Politics here.

Russia

Russia says D-Day's significance 'should not be exaggerated'

Russia says the D-Day invasion "did not have a decisive impact" on World War II and its significance "should not be exaggerated".

United Kingdom

'If only I was 20 years younger,' says veteran, 93, at Melania Trump

A 93-year-old D-Day veteran made a flirtatious remark as he met Donald and Melania Trump in southern England.

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World

May and Macron in France to mark 75th D-Day anniversary

At a ceremony in Ver-sur-Mer, the UK Prime Minister and the French President paid tribute to those who gave their lives in Normandy 75 years ago.

World

Veterans share their heartbreaking memories of the D-Day landings

Veterans of the D-Day landings have shared their heartbreaking memories of what was the largest seaborne invasion in history.

USA

D-Day soldier's letters to wife reveal endurance of love during war

"How is my dream girl tonight?" he wrote. "Fine, I hope. I can picture you now, darling, with your rust colored hair predominating the smudge of dirt on the tip of your nose, and you are submissive to your thoughts with a far-away look in your eye. "

France

D-Day heroes return to Normandy 75 years after the D-Day landings

75 years after the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, some of the heroes of D-Day departed from Portsmouth to make the journey once more

World News

Euroviews. Western leaders extol D-Day while ignoring the fascism reviving on their shores ǀ View

They delude themselves by thinking they can control these anti-democratic forces by remaining silent. Over time, these forces will instead control them.

France

Watch: Canadian D-Day veterans share their memories, 75 years on

"As soon as you land, you move": some Canadian veterans have shared their memories of the D-Day landing with Euronews on the 75th anniversary of that historical day.

France

D-Day 75 years on: How the biggest seaborne invasion was executed

More than 150,000 allied troops crossed the Channel to storm French beaches in Normandy on June 6, 1944. They ushered in the beginning of the end for the Third Reich and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Euronews recaps what happened on that decisive day.

France

In pictures: How do sites involved in D-Day landings look 75 years on?

As Europe pays tribute to the fallen, photographer Chris Helgren returned to some of the key locations involved in the D-Day landings to see how they have changed since the war.

France

Hear how D-Day was broadcast to the world 75 years ago

Legendary broadcaster George Hicks was calm and deliberate while doing a radio report at the frontlines of the Normandy invasions in June 1944.

World News

'The daunting noise it made': Witness recalls D-Day carnage

"I remember watching a dead soldier on the road and two tank columns were advancing and driving over the corpse... the noise it made, a daunting noise."

France

Key facts and figures to know about D-Day

D-day in numbers.

France

Eight human stories from D-Day, 75 years on

Euronews takes a look at eight human stories from D-Day, 75 years on.