Surviving Normandy Veterans Remember Their Role on D-Day

PORTSMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 10: A 1944 photograph of Normany veteran 90-year-old Eddie Wallace is seen at the D-Day Museum at Southsea seafront on April 10, 2014 in Portsmouth, England. On D-Day, June 6 1944, Eddie Wallace was serving with 86th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Honourable Artillery Company and landed on D-Day at Juno Beach, in support of the Canadians. Asked what his most vivid memory of D-Day was he replied: One of the things I do recall when landing is all the dead bodies that were floating around us. One or two of the lads were sick when they saw that. June 6 2014 will see the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings which saw 156,000 Allied troops from The United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Free France and Norway begin the liberation of France which eventually helped led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. A series of commemoration events are being planned in Normandy, but with the youngest participants now at least 88-years-old, it is also expected to be the last memorial pilgrimage to France for many of the surviving veterans (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)