UTAH BEACH, France - World War II veteran and D-Day Invasion survivor Ralph Ticcioni,, age 93, visited Normandy for the second time in his life, this time for the 72nd anniversary of the famed allied invasion. Pictured here, Ticcioni met a group of French school children while touring the Azeville Battery, part of the Atlantic Wall built by the 3rd Reich during World War II. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Crista Mary Mack, Army Europe Public Affairs)

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