japanese army veteran praying for his fallen comrades in yasukuni shrine 

japanese veteran 

Normandy veterans Frank Allen (R), 85, and Cyril Askew, 92, both from Liverpool, England, look at the French coastline on a cross channel ferry on June 4, 2009 from Portsmouth, England to Caen, France. Several hundred of the remaining veterans of the Normandy campaign are travelling to France to take part in commemorations to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1944.


Normandy veterans

The grave of Lieutenant H. D. Brotheridge of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Airborne on the cemetery of Ranville/Normandy. Lt. Brotheridge was killed at Pegasus Bridge and is supposed to be the first British casualty in Normandy. A grateful French family placed a plate of dedication.