One of the side issues of a hobby such as ours is that we often create miniatures that are exciting to look at without necessarily caring about those brave souls that either drove or flew them in action. Fortunately, we are provided with yearly reminders of their work and this year that reminder came in the form of a sixtieth anniversary celebration of the D-Day landings. Over the month of June we saw a wide variety of events that marked this anniversary, with a huge number of veterans in attendance. At the time MIS considered creating a special issue to help commemorate this event but chose instead to allot some space to remembering celebrations post June Sixth -as indeed we are doing this month with John Norris' special report on the festivities in Normandy. To mark the occasion world leaders including HRH Queen Elizabeth II visited the Normandy region to pay tribute to those veterans still alive and pay their respects to the fallen of all armies. However, as always, the celebrations really belong to the veterans who fought in the Normandy Campaign. Each year they arrive from America, Britain, Canada and of course France and Poland. This year for the first time the presence of Germany was formally accepted as being appropriate to the ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary.
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