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World leaders, including the King and Queen and US President Joe Biden have gathered together with veterans today to commemorate 80 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944

British D-Day heroes honoured the dead in a ceremony at Bayeux war cemetery in Normandy on Wednesday as one former codebreaker, 100, still grieves for his killed colleagues

A new 50p commemorative coin struck to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy features Allied soldiers storming from the beaches with aircraft overhead

The design of the 'tails' or reverse side of the 50p coin will be unveiled ahead of the anniversary on June 6

Dennis Lanham served as senior mechanic for the 79th Armoured Division, operating the flame-throwing tanks known as Crocodiles that proved vital for the D-Day landings in 1944