As-it-happened: D-Day commemorations

Key Points

• D-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied western Europe
• On 6 June 1944, 156,000 British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of northern France
• The Queen, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were among those attending commemorations
• Hundreds of WW2 veterans also attended
• As many as 4,000 Allied troops and 9,000 German died in one day
• All times are in BST (GMT +1)