French President Emmanuel Macron and Cameroonian President Paul Biya pay tribute to the army that took part in the Provence landings 80 years ago, an event overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, but still key to the World War II endgame in Europe (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

"The most moving thing is these cemeteries. When I'm in one of them, they speak to me in silence" (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

As the French seaside town of Courseulles-sur-Mer in Calvados commemorates the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings during World War II on June 6, some Canadian tourists are wandering the streets and beach to take part in the Franco-Canadian ceremonies (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

We have come from England to pay tribute to all those who gave their lives so that we could be free today" : visitors watch as dozens of British soldiers from the 47th Royal Marine Commando disembark on Gold beach to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Polish paratroopers dropped dozens of parachutes to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem in Driel, the Netherlands. The festival was taken place in Driel, the Netherlands by the veterans, royalty, ministers, and thousands of well-wishers to mark the 75th anniversary of the Operation Market Garden in WW II. About 35,000 troops landed by parachute and gliders in what was then the largest airborne operation in history. Britain' Prince Charles and the Netherlands' Princess Beatrix and veterans attended a service and wreath-laying at the former landing zone of Ginkel Heath.45 sec video . Video Location: Driel, Netherlands. (Footage by @Cloud1986/Spectee via Getty Images UGC)

MS prisoners walk down hill with hands in air / MS camouflaged prisoners march / Nazis march Canadian prisoners with hands on heads / VS prisoners stand with hands on head with Nazis guarding them / CU prisoners stand in group around Nazi / VS patches on jacket shoulders: North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Canadian Parachute Battalion / VS Canadian prisoners stand in group, sitting on ground / CU prisoner with eye patch / CU Nazi questions prisoner who stands in group / CU prisoner with wounds on his face

Canadian Ernest Adolphe Cote revisits the Normandy beaches where he took part in the D Day Allied Offensive in World War II (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Several Allied tanks sit on the beaches of Dieppe / vast battalion of army tanks roll through a field / several destroyed Allied ships sitting off the coast of Dieppe, wrecked Allied ships including 'Calgary' and 'Beefy' / aerial of a vast armada of ships moving along the ocean.

MS SS Ile De France arriving / CU Ile de France with Canadian soldiers, towards camera / MS troops crowded on ship waving / CU soldiers waving / MS soldiers crowded in back of ship along rail waving / MS soldiers at rail, people waving to them seen thru doorway of dock / MS CU paratroopers of the first Canadian Parachute Battalion, 1100 famous Red Devils (1st Canadian Parachute Battalion) of D-Day and the Rhine crossing, going down gangway / WS paratroopers marching thru city/ CU paratroopers marching past / MS Lt. Col. George F Eadie, commanding officer of First Canadian Parachute Battalion, receiving key to city from acting Mayor J.E. Ahearn of Halifax, crowds in bg / CU Eadie with key / CU Eadie receiving flag of Nova Scotia / Note: exact day not known

Universal Newsreel: Allied troops land on France

Canada pays tribute to its fallen WWII soldiers in a ceremony on Juno Beach when they had landed on the 6th of June 1944 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Juno Beach, where the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division commanded by Major General Rodney Keller, assisted by the Royal Canadian Navy and the British Royal Navy landed to liberate France on D-Day during World War II. Juno Beach, one of the five landing beaches.