Due to Covid-19 and travel restrictions, World War II veterans have been deprived of commemorations of the Normandy landings for the past two years.
The catch-up session promises to be “out of the ordinary”, reports
Ouest-France
.
A specially chartered Boeing 767 will land in early June in Deauville (Calvados) allowing "35 American veterans" and their companions to participate in the ceremonies.
These veterans are fewer and fewer each year, many being now centenarians.
“Each will be collected from different cities in the United States”
“Rather than taking commercial flights, which land in Paris and require long journeys by road”, the Best defense foundation will finance this “colossal logistics [the operation costs half a million dollars]”.
“Each will be picked up in different cities in the United States to take off from Atlanta (Georgia) and land in Deauville on June 2, 2022, where the gendarmerie provides an escort”, details the regional daily.
On June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 Allied soldiers and paratroopers landed on Normandy beaches to liberate France and the European continent from Nazi occupation.
More than 10,000 died there.
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