{"id":6798,"date":"2024-06-06T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/?p=6798"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:27:01","slug":"king-charles-travels-to-mark-d-day-anniversary-while-prince-william-takes-greater-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/king-charles-travels-to-mark-d-day-anniversary-while-prince-william-takes-greater-role\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles travels to mark D-Day anniversary while Prince William takes greater role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Britain\u2019s King Charles III has embarked on his first overseas trip since being diagnosed with cancer, traveling across the English Channel for\u00a0commemorations marking the 80th anniversary\u00a0of the 1944\u00a0D-Day Landings in Normandy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on five stretches of the German-occupied Normandy coastline on June 6, 1944. Operation Overlord \u2013 as D-Day was codenamed \u2013 remains, to this day, the largest amphibious <\/strong>invasion in history, \ufeffand was a crucial turning point in defeating the Nazis in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omaha Beach was the deadliest of the landing sites as German forces were entrenched in fortified cliff positions above allowing them to fire on the first waves of US soldiers as they reached the shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly 10,000 Allied troops were\u00a0killed or wounded\u00a0on D-Day. Exact figures of German casualties on the day are not known, however it has been estimated to be between\u00a04,000 and 9,000\u00a0service personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday morning, King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the UK Ministry of Defence and the Royal British Legion\u2019s commemorative event at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer. Charles is patron of both the Royal British Legion and Normandy Memorial Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n