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法国举行诺曼底登陆 70 周年纪念World leaders are joining hundreds of veterans in Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.世界领导人与数百名老兵齐聚诺曼底纪念诺曼底登陆 70 周年。US veterans including Morley Piper, 90, gathered at Omaha Beach on Friday morning Heads of state will meet at Ouistreham, one of the five beaches where Allied troops landed on 6 June 1944. French President Francois Hollande will give a speech followed by US President Barack Obama. The Queen and Russian President Vladimir Putin will also go. There will be a re-enactment of the landings, which were the start of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. By the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold（据点） in France - an event that would eventually help bring the war to an end. The day's commemorations began at midnight with a vigil（守夜，监视） at Pegasus Bridge near Ouistreham, marking the first assault of the D-Day invasion when British soldiers began the first Allied action of the campaign. In other events: More than 300 troops parachuted into Ranville, the first village to be liberated on D-Day The Princess Royal was at the drumhead ceremony in Southsea, Portsmouth, where many of the D-Day troops originally departed from The Queen left flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with Mr Hollande in Paris A flotilla led by HMS Bulwark sailed from Portsmouth to Normandy with four vessels from other countries At 00:16 on 6 June 1944, six Horsa gliders（滑翔机） carrying 181 men from the Glider Pilot Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, landed silently to capture the strategically-vital bridge and another nearby.