“This is a lot more agreeable than my first trip to Normandy,” 98-year-old Canadian veteran, George Couture, told Le Parisien this morning, as he arrived on the northern French coast to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Couture – who was taken prisoner for 11 months following the D-Day landings – is one of around 200 Second World War veterans in Normandy today, alongside 25 world leaders and the King of England, to attend commemoration ceremonies.