Photos: Ceremony marks 68th anniversary of D-Day
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French President Francois Hollande (2ndR), flanked by French Junior Minister for Veterans, Kader Arif (2ndL), reviews the troops prior to a ceremony to mark the D-Day's 68th anniversary on June 6, 2012 at a war cemetery in Ranville, northwestern France. Some 156,000 Allied personnel landed in France on June 6, 1944 during the World War II, event which changed the course of history. An estimated 10,000 Allied troops were left dead, wounded or missing, while Germany lost between 4,000 and 9,000, and thousands of French civilians were killed. AFP PHOTO / POOL / BERTRAND LANGLOIS (Photo credit should read BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/GettyImages)
