Alice, let, puts a flower, as family members Remy, Dalma and Sylvie look on in the 1944 headstones of the US cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy on 4 June 2022

Video. World War II veterans gather to commemorate D-Day Normandy landings

On 6 June 1944, Allied troops landed on the five beaches carried by 7,000 boats. On that single day, 4,414 Allied soldiers lost their lives and more than 5,000 were wounded.