close Video D-Day veterans left the UK for France on Tuesday, June 4, ahead of commemorations that will mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings The 25 former servicemen making the ferry crossing were given a warm sendoff as the Jedburgh Pipe Band performed Amazing Grace on the deck of the Mont St Michel ferry. Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account - free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News' Terms of Use and Privacy Policy , which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive .
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The American paratroopers who dropped from the sky into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, appeared sent from heaven. In the eyes of the people looking up from the ground of occupied France on D-Day, the climactic event of World War II, they were indeed saviors. "For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie," Paul Renaud, a 14-year-old resident of the Norman town of Sainte Mere Eglise on D-Day, said years later, in a story reported on the U.
S. Army website. ANNE FRANK'S SPIRITS SOARED ON D-DAY: ‘FRIENDS ARE ON THE WAY,' SHE WROTE OF HEROIC GIs American youth crossed the Atlantic Ocean to deliver France from evil — the evil of .
