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Wide shot landing beach2. Sign on beach reading \"Omaha Beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, June 6th 1944, sector Charlie - Dog Green\"3. Entrance of bunker by the beach with people along nearby path4....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eVierville-sur-Mer, Omaha Beach - 5 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot landing beach\u003cbr/\u003e2. Sign on beach reading \"Omaha Beach, Vierville-sur-Mer, June 6th 1944, sector Charlie - Dog Green\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Entrance of bunker by the beach with people along nearby path\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of people dressed up as US soldiers with jeep on the beach\u003cbr/\u003eColleville-sur-Mer  - 5 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan to sign reading: \"Normandy American cemetery and memorial\" at the entrance of the cemetery \u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot white crosses marking graves inside US cemetery, US and French flags at each grave\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up French and US flags with flowers on grave\u003cbr/\u003e8. Preps for tomorrow's ceremony inside US cemetery\u003cbr/\u003eRanville  - 5 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of dozens of British paratroopers dropping from C130 Hercules plane\u003cbr/\u003e10. British paratroopers touching ground\u003cbr/\u003eLa Cambe  - 5 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide exterior of German military cemetery\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide pan of cemetery, preparations ongoing ahead of ceremony\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Ryan, retired US Army, who was Commander Sergeant Major of the 1st Division, 16th infantry regiment which landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And that's why I came here. Out of respect. 'Cause we're all soldiers, regardless of, you know...they were fighting for their country, we're fighting for ours. And that's not baloney. That's the truth. That's the way we old soldiers feel.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Veteran, helped by two others, looking at memorial\u003cbr/\u003e15. Ryan and German veteran Karl-Heinz Mayer shaking hands \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (German) Karl-Heinz Mayer, veteran from Oldenburg Germany:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Today I am here for the last time because I am 83 and I'm not that well. We shake hands, so we are all normal people. And I hope there will never be a war again because this slaughter was horrible.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of wreaths being brought and laid at base of monument UPSOUND: drum roll\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of veterans watching\u003cbr/\u003eUS Department of Defence\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Normandy Beach - 6 June 1944\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various of Normandy beach landings on June 6, 1944 \u003cbr/\u003eParis - 5 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of veterans arriving at Legion of Honour ceremony venue\u003cbr/\u003e21. Marching band \u003cbr/\u003e22. Close up trumpet\u003cbr/\u003e23. American ex-prisoner of war at ceremony\u003cbr/\u003e24. Veterans standing for US national anthem\u003cbr/\u003e25. Officers carrying trays of Legion of Honour medals\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up of medals\u003cbr/\u003e27. French Defence minister, Herve Morin greeting veteran Bentley Kassal\u003cbr/\u003e28. Bentley Kassal receiving the Legion of Honour award from Morin\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bentley Kassal, 92 year-old, US veteran, fought in Europe from 1943 to 1945:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have the Bronze Star medal which I got during the war, and to get this - the emotion of the situation made me cry as I look around these other veterans. I feel so much in common. What we all went through during these very horrible days. Because as I said living in a fox hole, not knowing if you're going to survive, is a horrible experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Band marching\u003cbr/\u003eAmericans and Germans who were bitter enemies during the D-Day invasion of France shared stories and moments of silence at a Normandy ceremony on Friday, joining together to honour those who perished in the epochal World War II beach landings.\u003cbr/\u003eThey held their poignant, low-key ceremony at the German cemetery at La Cambe a day before an international\u003cbr/\u003ecommemoration nearby, led by President Barack Obama, to mark 65 years since Allied forces landed on Normandy's\u003cbr/\u003eshores.\u003cbr/\u003eVeterans and tourists were also marking the event at the main American cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer, walking amid the rows of white crosses and Stars of David as workers finished last minute preparations ahead of Saturday's commemorations.\u003cbr/\u003eThe cemetery has about 9,300 graves. Most US war dead were repatriated.\u003cbr/\u003eCelebrations have already started in the region: 131 British paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment of Colchester dropped in the countryside near Ranville on Friday morning.\u003cbr/\u003eLater in the day, a fireworks display was planned up and down the shore where Allied troops launched the Battle of Normandy that helped turn the tide of the war.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile in La Cambe, US and German World War II veterans paid respects to their fallen comrades at a German Military cemetery near a D-Day landing site ahead of the international commemoration of the Allied invasion of Normandy.\u003cbr/\u003eUS Veteran Bill Ryan, who was Commander Sergeant Major of the 1st Division, 16th infantry regiment which landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, said he attended the ceremony out of respect.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're all soldiers, regardless of, you know...they were fighting for their country, we're fighting for ours,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That's the truth. That's the way we old soldiers feel.\" \u003cbr/\u003eRyan later greeted and spoke to 83-year-old German veteran Karl-Heinz Mayer, from Oldenburg.\u003cbr/\u003eMayer recalled lying wounded on the fields of Normandy 65 years ago. An American soldier roused him with his boot, Mayer said. He said he was eventually sent to the United States to be treated for his wounds.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We shake hands, so we are all normal people. And I hope there will never be a war again because this slaughter was horrible,\" said Mayer. \u003cbr/\u003eDuring Friday's ceremony, military bands played anthems of the United States, Germany, Britain and France as visitors piled wreaths at the foot of a mound at the centre of the cemetery. \u003cbr/\u003eSome 22-thousand German soldiers are buried in a grassy meadow not far from Omaha Beach.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the ceremony, a few dozen visitors stayed on in a corner of the cemetery, where a German priest and a few soldiers buried the remains of a German soldier discovered last year.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, France bestowed its highest honour on 45 American, Canadian and British veterans of D-Day on Friday, as President Obama prepared to fly in for the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings.\u003cbr/\u003eThey were presented with the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur) by French defence minister Herve Morin. Ten French veterans also received the honour. \u003cbr/\u003eBentley Kassal, now aged 92 and from New York, spent more than two years fighting in Europe. 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