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    考研英语阅读篇章：法国举行诺曼底登陆70周年纪念
    World leaders are joining hundreds of veterans in Normandy to mark the 70th
anniversary of the D-Day landings.
    世界领导人与数百名老兵齐聚诺曼底纪念诺曼底登陆70周年。
    US veterans including Morley Piper, 90, gathered at Omaha Beach on Friday
morning
    Heads of state will meet at Ouistreham, one of the five beaches where
Allied troops landed on 6 June 1944.
    French President Francois Hollande will give a speech followed by US
President Barack Obama. The Queen and Russian President Vladimir Putin will also
go.
    There will be a re-enactment of the landings, which were the start of the
invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.
    By the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold(据点) in France -
an event that would eventually help bring the war to an end.
    The day's commemorations began at midnight with a vigil(守夜，监视) at Pegasus
Bridge near Ouistreham, marking the first assault of the D-Day invasion when
British soldiers began the first Allied action of the campaign.
    In other events:
    More than 300 troops parachuted into Ranville, the first village to be
liberated on D-Day
    The Princess Royal was at the drumhead ceremony in Southsea, Portsmouth,
where many of the D-Day troops originally departed from
    The Queen left flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with Mr Hollande
in Paris
    A flotilla led by HMS Bulwark sailed from Portsmouth to Normandy with four
vessels from other countries
    At 00:16 on 6 June 1944, six Horsa gliders(滑翔机) carrying 181 men from the
Glider Pilot Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry, landed silently to capture the strategically-vital bridge and
another nearby.

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