A series of commemoration events are taking place in the UK and France marking the 75th anniversary D-Day landing in Normandy.
Senior politicians and members of the Royal family as well as hundreds of veterans are attending ceremonies to remember what is considered one of the most important events of the Second World War.
More than 200 veterans have boarded a cruise ship charted by the Royal British Legion to attend the events while others are descending en masse on Portsmouth and Normandy.
At the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, yesterday, some 4,000 military personnel, 11 Royal Naval vessels and 26 RAF aircraft were part of key ceremonies acknowledging the operation included the UK's national commemoration event which was attended by the Queen and US President Donald Trump, as well as representatives from other allied countries as well as Germany.
The President said he had looked forward to commemorating what "may have been the greatest battle ever in history".
The countries being represented at the event agreed to make a joint statement pledging to ensure the "unimaginable horror" of World War Two is not repeated.
Called "the D-Day proclamation", the 16 signatories - including the UK and the United States - commit to working together to "resolve international tensions peacefully.
Prime Minister Theresa May used the occasion to call for continued Western unity in tackling what she will call "new and evolving security threats". D-Day is a military term used to describe the day on which an operation, or attack, is to begin.
Derived from the word 'day', it has been used for many different military operations but is most closely association with the Allied landings on Normandy's beaches on June 6, 1944.
The Normandy D-Day landing operation was originally planned for June 5 - but bad weather delayed it by a day.
Some 5,300 ships and craft, 150,000 men, 1,500 tanks and 12,000 planes took part in D-Day - British and Commonwealth soldiers landed at Gold, Juno and Sword while American soldiers were sent to Utah and Omaha - making it the largest seaborne invasion in history.
