Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tim Rooke/REX (3796805bg) Vladimir Putin with Angela Merkel D-Day 70th anniversary, Bayeux, Normandy, France - 06 Jun 2014 World leaders gather at Sword Beach in Ouistreham, France for the International Ceremony to mark the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in 1944. President Hollande of France hosts the event attended by HM Queen Elizabeth and President Obama of the USA, President Putin of Russia and many other leaders of countries involved in the Allied liberation of France.