Otters and Science News: D-DAY - TOGETHER, ONE LAST TIME - Photos of commemorative events in Europe

(Being updated - see further below) - Daily Mail coverage of ceremonies and heart-warming stories of heroes. Here are some of the features with superb photographs by the Daily Mail. (I'll be adding more features to this page as they are reported.)

Photo on the right (AP, Daily Mail): Remembering: (from left) Second World War veterans of the US 29th Infantry Division, Hal Baumgarten, 90 from Jacksonville, Flordia, Steve Melnikoff, 94, from Maryland, Don McCarthy, 90 from Rhode Island, and Morley Piper, 90, from Massachusetts, attend a D-Day commemoration, on Omaha Beach

'I look at that beach and I can tell you where each was lying... I can still see their faces'. Tears of D-Day veterans as they return to Normandy to honour their fallen comrades.

Former soldiers from Britain and the US stood alongside other heroes as they recalled the harrowing day. Many were seen saluting at gravestones of their friends while others wiped tears from their eyes during speeches

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650699/They-paid-price-They-heroes-D-Day-veterans-honour-men-saw-die-beaches-Normandy.html

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All the Daily Mail articles here have dozens of excellent photographs. Click on any of them to see them.

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D-DAY LANDING - What if it had failed? - Two historians speculate on what could have been

Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/d-day-landing-what-if-it-had-failed.html

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Bernard's Great Escape: D-Day veteran, 89, who sneaked off from care home after staff told him he couldn't go to 70th anniversary commemorations makes it to Normandy against all the odds... AGAIN!

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'There were bodies floating in the water. Some were calling for their mother': Sgt Ken Scott, 98, finally comes to terms with his demons as he speaks for the first time of the horror of D-Day landings

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651110/Veteran-Ken-98-finally-comes-terms-demons-speaks-time-horror-D-Day-landings.html

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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge join Normandy D-Day celebrations as they meet British veterans for tea party

World leaders gather in Normandy today to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day - June 6 1944

Veterans saluted on the beaches at dawn and downed Calvados at 6.30am - the moment the landings started

Day of remembrance and celebration started at 12.16am at Pegasus Bridge, where the first troops landed

Queen meets veterans and salutes the 'immense and heroic' endeavour of them and their comrades 70 years ago

For many veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, this could be their annual pilgrimage to honour the 156,000 Allied troops

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Was the US president chewing gum during the ceremonies?

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Bernard's Great Escape: D-Day veteran, 89, who was reported missing by care home staff is found in Normandy - after escaping to join his former comrades

Bernard Jordan, 89, sneaked out of The Pines care home, Hove, yesterday

D-Day veteran had been told by staff that he could not travel to Normandy

Donning war medals under a raincoat, he joined his comrades on a coach

Sussex Police were called and launched search for former mayor of Hove

But care home later received call from a younger veteran reassuring them Mr Jordan was safe and well

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Russia's president Vladimir Putin attended ceremonies
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650629/Putin-Charles-Sword-beach-time-Prince-said-Russia-doing-just-Hitler.html

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The media and western leaders have been disdainful of Russian president Putin lately due to the Ukraine situation. However, he represents Russia and everyone should be reminded of the fact that the Second World War could not have been won without the disproportionate sacrifice of the people of the Soviet Union.

During World War II he Soviet Union suffered 8,700,000 to 13,850, 000 military deaths, 7 to 12 million civilian deaths caused by military or war criminals, and another 6 million deaths due to war-related famine and disease, with a total between 21,800,00 and 28,000.000.

Read more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

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'Everything is proceeding according to plan. And what a plan!' How Churchill told MPs of the most ambitious operation ever launched as the D-Day landings were still underway
Wartime PM delivered statement to Parliament hours after operation began Revealed details of the 'liberating assault' on the French coastline. Described an 'immense armada' of 4,000 ships and 11,000 aircraft.
Warned that the battle would grow in 'scale and intensity' for many weeks. Later updated Parliament again, warning 'fighting will continue without end'

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The British people's greatest day:
Cynics will say it's time to move on. But today raise a glass to the sheer ingenuity, courage and bloody mindedness of Britons like Stan Hollis, who turned a potential disaster into awesome victory - BY MAX HASTINGS
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2650125/The-British-peoples-greatest-day-Cynics-say-time-But-today-raise-glass-sheer-ingenuity-courage-bloody-mindedness-Britons-like-Stan-Hollis-turned-potential-disaster-awesome-victory.html

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'If I don't come home, there's so much I mean to tell you...': Heartbreaking last letters of the men who didn't make it through D-Day revealed
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2648610/If-I-dont-come-home-theres-I-mean-tell-Heartbreaking-letters-men-didnt-make-D-Day-revealed.html

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'Everyone was crying': Touching moment airline gate attendant serenades Second World War veterans as they board flight to Paris for 70th anniversary of D-Day

Anna Mari Barile sings US national anthem over loudspeaker at Detroit

12 veterans were en route to Normandy to mark D-Day anniversary

Moment was captured on video by honeymoon passenger

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'Any fault is mine alone': How General Eisenhower planned to take full blame if D-Day had FAILED (and it could teach today's politicians a thing or two!)

Little-known document was drafted quickly by the Allied commander

It reveals Eisenhower and Winston Churchill would have withdrawn troops

Note also shows Eisenhower would have personally carried the can

It has been held by the Eisenhower Presidential Library for the last 30 years

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Back to the beaches of death and deliverance: British D-Day veterans revisit the battlegrounds and villages they liberated 70 years on to meet the French civilians they helped to free from Nazis 650 British veterans including former Royal Engineer Gordon Smith gathered in Normandy yesterday. Ceremonies were the last formal commemoration of the event that changes course of the Second World War
Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649518/D-Day-veteran-honours-war-dead-70th-anniversary-celebrations-begin.html

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Fred and the Paras return to the killing fields... as daredevil veteran, 89, is greeted by Prince Charles after fearless leap from the skies

Jock Hutton, 89, was just 19 when he jumped out of a plane to join the Allied assault on the beaches of Normandy

He returned 70 years on to perform a tandem drop to the same field he landed on during D-Day

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