On Monday, veterans have been greeted to the sound of bagpipes at the Pegasus Memorial, where they attended a ceremony commemorating a key operation in the first minutes of the D-Day operations, when troops had to take control of a strategic bridge. The first job of his battalion, he said, was “to guard an ammunition dump and the first night it got struck. Never forget we were only 18, 19 years old. We had almost run over bodies to get in the beach. Gibson landed there on Jalongside more than 150,000 other Allied troops. Looking at the vastness of Utah Beach, its sand blowing in strong wind and bright sunshine, 99-year-old Robert Gibson remembered: “it was tough.” ON UTAH BEACH, France (AP) - World War II veterans shared vivid memories of D-Day and the fighting as dozens returned to Normandy beaches and key battle sites to mark the 79th anniversary of the decisive assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.
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