Normandy veteran Douglas Baines, 89, (who was a paratrooper dropped into Normandy in the early hours of D-Day) smokes a cigarette as he visits the Pegasus Bridge Memorial Museum on June 5, 2013 near Caen, France. Across Normandy several hundred of the surviving veterans of the Normandy campaign are gathering to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the D-Day landings which eventually led to the Allied liberation of France in 1944. Next year, which will mark the 70th anniversary of the landings, is widely expected to be the last time that the veterans will gather in any great number. Photo: Matt Cardy, Getty Images / 2013 Getty Images
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