Colleville-Sur-Mer, France - Veterans gathered in Normandy on Friday to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landing, a critical moment in World War II that ultimately led to the collapse of the Adolf Hitler regime.

Along the coastline and near the D-Day Landing Beach, thousands of onlookers participated in the commemoration, including parachute jumps, overpasses, memorial rituals, parades and historical reenactments.

Many were there to cheer for surviving veterans in the late 1990s and above. Everyone remembers thousands of deaths.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth commemorates the D-Day landing anniversary, with U.S. soldiers playing a leading role among U.S. soldiers, with veterans at U.S. Cemetery overlooking the coast of Colville-Racing Village.

On June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest fleet, troops, aircraft and vehicles of all time to violate Hitler's defenses in Western Europe. On D-Day itself, a total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed.

In the subsequent Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied troops were killed and 153,000 were injured. From June to August 1944, the battle, especially Allied bombs in French villages and cities, attacked about 20,000 French civilians.

The exact German casualties are unknown, but historians estimate that between 4,000 and 9,000 men were killed, injured or missing during the D-day invasion alone.

"On DD, the heroism, honor and sacrifice of the Allied forces will always resonate with the United States Armed Forces and our allies and partners throughout Europe," said Lieutenant General Jason T. Hinds, deputy commander of the United States Air Force in the European Air Force - Lieutenant General Jason T. Hinds, deputy commander of the United States Air Force in the African Air Force. "So let us remember those who flew around."

"Let us respect those who survive and come home to build a better world. Let us make sure that their sacrifice is not futile by meeting today's challenges with the same determination, the same goal and the same commitment to freedom."

Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day.

Of these, 73,000 were from the United States and 83,000 were from the United Kingdom and Canada. Forces from several other countries were also involved, including the French army fighting General Charles de Gaulle. The Allies faced about 50,000 German troops.

More than two million Allied forces, sailors, pilots, medical staff and others from more than a dozen countries participated in the overall operational overlord, a battle controlled by France from the Nazi-controlled West starting from the D-D.