US President Obama Joins D-Day Commemoration in France

World War II veterans commemorate D-Day landings on June 6. File Photo

D-Day World War II veterans mark Saturday the 65th anniversary of the Allied Normandy landings.

US President Barack Obama, his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, the Prime Ministers of Canada and the UK, British Prince Charles, and veterans of the landings are all taking part in the ceremony in France, BBC reports.

They will attend commemorations at a cemetery near Omaha Beach, where 215 000 Allied soldiers died on 6 June 1944.

US President, Barrack Obama, arrived in Paris late Friday evening after a brief trip to Germany in which he and Chancellor Angela Merkel toured the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Obama's Saturday agenda includes talks with French President Sarkozy in Caen and a speech at the US war cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks Omaha Beach.

President Obama's great-uncle, Charlie Payne, 84, who helped to liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp, has also traveled to Normandy.

 

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