Arromanches-les-Bains, France, May 1994: Fifty years after the allied invasion of Normandy in World War II, a visitor looks up at the remnants of one of the “Phoenix” concrete caissons used in the construction of an artificial harbor that allowed supplies to flow to the troops as they moved inland.

Check out what will be happening on the Normandy beaches this year for D-Day’s 80th anniversary on our Europe Community paper’s D-Day page here. https://europe.stripes.com/d-day/