World marks D-Day in Normandy

May joins Macron to honor 'a very special generation'

British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron joined hundreds of military veterans in commemorative services on the beaches of Normandy in Northern France early on Thursday morning, to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.

D-Day, the invasion of Nazi-occupied France by allied troops, was the largest combined air, sea and land operation in military history, with 156,000 troops landing on five beaches. Launched from the south coast of England, it was one of the decisive events in the history of the war.