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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Bayeux

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US actor Tom Hanks chats with a WWII veteran at the US cemetery in Colleville-sur-mer

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French President Jacques Chirac said France would never forget "its debt to America, its everlasting friend"

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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder bows before the grave of an unknown German soldier in a mixed cemetery in Ranville

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Conservative leader Michael Howard and Cherie Blair listen to the prime minister

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People watch fireworks from Vierville to commemorate the 60th anniversary

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A million poppies were dropped off the coastline of Normandy in remembrance of those who lost their lives

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Fifteen D-Day veterans from the Royal Navy Tank Landing Craft pray for their colleagues in the square in Arromanches

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Raymond Daeche, from Harlow in Essex, plants a Union Jack flag in the sand on Sword Beach in Hermanville, Normandy

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A veteran looks on in remembrance at the Ranville cemetery

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One young visitor is overcome as veterans look on

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A lone bagpiper plays a lament overlooking Juno Beach in Courseulles-sur-Mer