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75 years later: D-Day invasion of Normandy, France

By Associated Press

June 4, 2019

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Army medic Ray Lambert already had two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star before he landed with the first wave of Allied troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day, 1944. At 98, the North Carolina man returned one last time to Omaha Beach on Monday.
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D-Day veteran Ray Lambert on Tuesday told French students he still hears voices when he looks out on the English Channel. AP is following the 98-year-old D-Day vet as he returns to France. Lambert says kids are the key to history never repeating itself.
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On Tuesday, Johnnie Jones Sr., one of only 2,000 African American troops to come ashore on D-Day, recalls his service in a military still segregated by race and the discrimination he faced in the service and at home.
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In this Aug. 30, 1944, file photo, American soldiers ride horses captured from the retreating Germans are met by town residents as they enter the French town of Chambois, Normandy, France. D-Day marked only the beginning of the Allied struggle to wrest Europe from the Nazis. A commemoration Tuesday served as a reminder of this, in the shadow of bigger D-Day 75th anniversary commemorations.
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In this June 5, 1944, file photo, U.S. serviceman attend a Protestant service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France. June 6, 2019, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the assault that began the liberation of France and Europe from German occupation, leading to the end World War II. Unit patches were scratched out by military censors at the time.
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In this June 8, 1944, file photo, under heavy German machine gun fire, American infantrymen wade ashore off the ramp of a Coast Guard landing craft during the invasion of the French coast of Normandy in World War II.
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In this June 1944, file photo, U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies', D-Day invasion of occupied France.
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In this June 6, 1944, file photo, provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day, "Full Victory - Nothing Else" to paratroopers in England just before they board their planes to participate in the first assault in the invasion of the continent of Europe.
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This combination of photos shows the twin steeples of St. Hilaire Du Harcouet's church in Normandy, France, on Aug. 13, 1944, left, and right, a view of the same location on May 8, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows U.S. troops passing through the town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont as they push forward in France, June 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 9, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows a British soldier walking in the streets of captured Argentan, in Normandy, France on Sept. 11, 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 8, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows ruins in the town of Valognes on Oct. 7, 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location 75 years later on May 9, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows the flag-covered body of an officer identified only as "Major Aowie" resting amid the ruins of St. Croix Church as two of his men man a machine gun in a bomb crater in the foreground, in St. Lo, France, July 23, 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 8, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows the twin steeples of St. Hilaire Du Harcouet's church in Normandy, France, on Aug. 13, 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 8, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows British soldiers marching past the ruins of a church in the war-damaged town of Pont-L'Eveque, in the Normandy region of France, in August 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 10, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows an American soldier and a French civilian speaking on the causeway leading from the mainland of Brittany to the famous tourist resort of Mont-St-Michel in Normandy on Aug. 8, 1944, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 8, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows the scene along a section of Omaha Beach in June 1944, during Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion at the Normandy coast in France during World War II, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 9, 2019.
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This combination of photos shows inhabitants of La Haye Du Puits in Normandy, France, on July 14, 1944, returning to their home town, top, and below, a view of the same location on May 10, 2019.
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Charles de Gaulle, arrives for a military parade down the Champs-Elysees after the liberation of Paris. Seventy-five years later, surprising color images of the D-Day invasion and aftermath bring an immediacy to wartime memories. They were filmed by Hollywood director George Stevens and rediscovered years after his death.
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French women cheer U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris in 1944 during World War II.
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U.S. Gen. Omar Bradley salutes as Charles de Gaulle, background left, speaks before for a military parade down the Champs-Elysees after the liberation of Paris.
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Empty shells on the deck of a ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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U.S. military vehicles and soldiers march down the Champs-Elysees after the liberation of Paris.
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U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower attends a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in Paris.
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Hollywood director George Stevens looks through a camera on a ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Stevens was assigned to to head up the combat motion-picture coverage, but he was also using 16-millimeter color film for himself of the same events, creating a kind of personal video journal of his experiences.
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Hollywood director George Stevens, center, talks after a military parade in Paris.
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Hollywood director George Stevens stands on a ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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French women smile at U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris.
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U.S. troops drive through a town during World War II in France.
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Ships and blimps sit off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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View from a ship on D-Day off the coast of France on June 6, 1944.
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Soldiers sit on a tank holding a sign about a mine field during World War II in France on June 6, 1944.
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Landing craft on the beach during D-Day on June 6, 1944 in France.
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U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, left, with a pearl-handled pistol, talks to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, center right with the beret hat, and other British officers in France during World War II.
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U.S. troops drive through a town by a sign for the Hotel du Lion during World War II in France.
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A German officer is escorted by U.S. soldiers after the liberation of Paris in 1944.
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U.S. soldiers in Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background during World War II after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
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A French girl holding a weapon watches U.S. troops drive past after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
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Gen. Phillippe Leclerc, foreground second right, stands with a captured German officer, left, after the liberation of Paris in 1944 during World War II.
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Charles de Gaulle, right, speaks to a French citizen, center, and another French officer after the liberation of Paris in 1944 during World War II.
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