Here are some memorable moments captured by Stars and Stripes from the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Besmaya training site, Iraq, April 26, 2015: U.S. Army advisers run to safety after lighting tires for realistic effects during an Iraqi army exercise at Besmaya, a coalition training site south of Baghdad.

Among the 1,300 paratroopers from six nations who jumped into Normandy on Sunday were two Americans whose family members helped liberate France 80 years ago.

Tokyo, 1960: George Rosenblatt and Leo Kuehnen take a photograph of a Japanese woman holding up her parasol.

Saint-Avold, France, May 20, 1971: A visitor to the Lorraine American Cemetery near Saint-Avold walks between the graves of some of the 10,481 American war dead buried there.

Five U.S. Army nurses Saturday [June 10, 1944] became the first Allied women to land in France when they assisted in evacuating by air 14 stretcher cases from the Cherbourg peninsula.

“5 U.S. Army Nurses Become First Allied Women to Land,” read the headline accompanying this photo in Stars and Stripes’ London edition, June 12, 1944.

President Joe Biden paid tribute to American and allied troops at a ceremony in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, drawing parallels between the struggles against tyranny during World War II and Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Naval guns and Army rifles combined to win one of the toughest beachheads the Allied forces have established on the Normandy coast during the past 12 hours.

Sheer guts won a foothold on the beach we are attacking. Salt-stained small boatmen, returning from the first wave, are almost reverent in their praise of American Infantrymen who charged the beaches.

Front page of the Northern Ireland edition of Stars and Stripes on June 6, 1944, announcing D-Day.

A few hundred service members and other guests gathered near a famed 100-foot cliff in Normandy on Wednesday, where 80 years ago, one of the most daring and dangerous missions of World War II took place.

Staff Sgt. Casimir P. Lobacz was killed in action during World War II and his remains went unidentified for decades. 80 years later, he will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.

North and south, all across the Channel and deep into the reaches beyond the concrete-bound coasts of the Continent, some 7,000 American and Allied warplanes flew in the greatest aerial armada in history. This was the invasion.

Picauville, France, June 5, 2014: Balloons carrying the names of U.S. soldiers who died during the D-Day invasion were released at a 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration at the Ninth Air Force Memorial.

Landing Zone Mack, South Vietnam, Oct. 9, 1966: A Marine hit on the head and back by grenade shrapnel receives medical attention from a Navy corpsman, about 50 yards from the top of Hill 484, also known as LZ Mack.

World War II veterans exchanged hugs and handshakes with an enthusiastic crowd of officials and high school students who greeted them as they arrived in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.