(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) PARIS, June 6 (KUNA) -- US President Joe Biden, marking the 80s D-Day Landing anniversary on Thursday, said the outcome of the battle between freedom and tyranny was determined at the Normandy shores in the late stages of the second global war, World War II.
The deceased dictator, Hitler, along with his henchmen, had wrongly believed that democracy was weak and that the future was for dictatorships, however, at the Normandy shores the showdown between liberty and oppression had taken place.
Biden, speaking during the commemorative ceremony for the fallen, held at the American cemetery in Collville-Sur-Mer in northwest France, singled out thousands of African Americans and women who had served in the army during the big war despite constraints that had been enforced at the time.
On behalf of the American people, Biden expressed gratitude to those who had taken part in the major allied military operation at the Normandy that had paved the way for crushing Hitler's Nazi forces.
He alluded to historic remarks by the deceased British prime minister, Winston Churchill, who had acknowledged that the operation was quite thorny and was executed after years of planning.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron hailed a nation that was ready to die on an external territory for sake of fighting the dictatorship.
The US and French presidents decorated veterans, who had taken part in the war, with prestigious awards.
On June 6, 1944, more than 150 Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches for liberating France and Europe of the Nazis' claws. (end)
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