Dee-Day was born on 6 June 1944 and was named after the famous #DDay, external Invasion.

France's parliament, the Assemblée Nationale, has thanked Allied forces who fought on D-Day, as well as Resistance fighters and civilians.

En route to Normandy, Donald Trump tweets footage of veterans talking about their experiences on D-Day.

"We are eternally grateful!" Mr Trump writes.

Ted was 15 years old when he joined the fire brigade as a messenger.

Ted said the first thing they did was give him a tin hat with an M on it, a gas mask, a pair of welly boots and some overalls.

"I was really proud of that", he said as he relived the memory whilst speaking to BBC Radio Wales

Donald Trump and his wife Melania have boarded Air Force One in Ireland bound for Normandy to join commemorations there.

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Two British D-Day veterans have successfully re-enacted parachute jumps made by Allied forces 75 years ago.

British airborne troops flew in by wooden glider and parachute just after midnight on 6 June 1944 to capture the bridge in Bénouville.

Yesterday, Harry Read, 95, and John Hutton, 94, jumped in tandem with members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team, the Red Devils.

They were greeted with cheers and applause as they landed in the French fields.

Mr Hutton told the BBC before the jump: "My main objective is to pay my respects to people on the ground who never came back."

Mr Read added: "[On D-Day] there was an almighty fireworks display taking place just ahead of us - and we were going straight into it."

President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has tweeted about D-Day, a "critical turning point" in World War II.

With her post she included a note from General Dwight D Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during the war.

"The eyes of the world are upon you," Gen Eisenhower's note read. "We will accept nothing less than full victory!"

On Wednesday Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony in Caen to remember the killings of a group of Resistance fighters.

As Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, Nazi troops killed around 80 fighters at a prison in Caen, 71 of whom have since been identified.

Mr Macron is the first French president to commemorate those murdered. Around 500 people attended the ceremony, including veterans and some of the families of those killed.

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President Macron said he was "honoured" to be there to launch construction work for the British memorial.

The statue shows three British soldiers fighting their way up the beach.

Mr Macron said: "This is where young men, many of whom had never set foot on French soil, landed at dawn under German fire, risking their lives while fighting their way up the beach, which was littered with obstacles and mines."

He added: "Nothing will break them. Nothing can ever break ties that have been bound in bloodshed and shared values.

And in an apparent reference to on-going Brexit talks, he said: "The debates taking place today cannot affect the strength of our joint history and our shared future."

President Macron has thanked those British soldiers killed and injured fighting "for the freedom of their French brothers and the freedom of Europe."

Speaking at a ceremony to unveil a new statue and the site of a new memorial, the French president called it an "anomaly" and "intolerable" that there had been no such memorial in Normandy before now.

Momentarily speaking in English, the French president said: "Whatever it takes we will always stand together because this is our common destiny."

Theresa May said it was "incredibly moving" to be at the commemorations.

She said it was an honour to share the day with those veterans who took part in the battle.

Calling D-Day "one of the greatest battles for freedom this world has ever known", she praised the "raw courage" needed "to leap from landing craft and into the surf despite the fury of battle".

She also praised the bravery of French resistance fighters behind the lines.

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British forces landed near the town of Ver-sur-Mer on the morning of 6 June 1944, and this will be the site of the new statue.

Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron will dedicate the first stone. Once completed, the memorial will list the names of those under British command who died between D-Day and 31 August 1944.

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A service to unveil a new statue to commemorate the British servicemen and women who died on D-Day, 75 years ago.

Emmanuel Macron is addressing those gathered in Ver-sur-Mer.

Theresa May is preparing to address D-Day veterans in Normandy.

In one of her final official engagements of her premiership, Mrs May and the French president Emmanuel Macron will attend an inauguration ceremony for a memorial to honour the British troops who died.

Later, she will attend a cathedral service in Bayeux, alongside veterans and the Prince of Wales.

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HMS Belfast was the lead bombardment ship for the areas around Gold and Juno beaches.

The ship served as the headquarters for the British part of the operation on D-Day.

Before the assault began, the ship came to a halt around six miles off the shore.

Speaking from on board the ship, docked in the Thames, historian Nigel Steel of the Imperial War Memorial described the scene: "From that moment on, once the ship stopped moving, the crew would have known - wherever they were and however far down the ship they were - that things were about to happen.

"So I think the tension would have risen even if they couldn't see anything, because they were locked in the engine room or wherever, they knew things were about to happen."

"They waited and waited and things would have become more tense until finally the guns started firing and action began."

The ship was meant to be the first to fire, but was delayed as they double-checked their co-ordinates.

Yesterday, the Queen, PM Theresa May and US President Donald Trump all gathered in Portsmouth to begin the commemorations.

The Red Arrows performed a flypast for the 60,000 people gathered in the city.

Among them were more than 300 veterans, who later met with royals and world leaders.

You can see pictures of the event here.

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"Nerve-wracking" is how a soldier has described being the lone piper to mark the moment British troops landed in Normandy.

Pipe Major Trevor Macey-Lillie, a veteran of Afghanistan, said he was "just trying to focus on the job" as he played Highland Laddie with the world's media watching on.

The tune was one of those played by P Mjr Macey-Lillie's fellow Scotsman Bill Millin during the D-Day assault.

He hoped it would help guide and encourage his comrades off the beaches and away from enemy fire.

The former head of the British Army, Lord Dannatt, says a memorial to fallen soldiers in Normandy will be a "great place of reflection, commemoration and gratitude."

French President Macron and UK Prime Minister May will be in Ver-sur-Mer to see the first stone laid for the memorial later this morning.

It will feature the names of 20,000 British troops who died. Lord Dannatt said veterans had requested the names be listed.

A statue in the soldiers' honour will also be unveiled at around 07:30 BST.