D-Day: Military piper marks 80 years since moment UK personnel landed on Gold Beach

A military piper has played a lament to mark 80 years since the exact moment the first British troops landed on Gold Beach.

On this date in 1944, more than 150,000 allied troops landed by air and sea on the beaches of Normandy in northern France.

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