WW2 veterans eye 80th anniversary of D-Day as Europe salutes war dead

By Tim Hepher (Reuters) - English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War Two. The ambush near the bitterly contested "Hill 112" came during weeks of fighting after the largest seaborne assault in history, which began the liberation of France from Nazi German occupation. "Thirty of us went out, 16 including my brother got back, five of us got captured and nine got killed," Hay said. As many nations around the world commemorate last century's wars and other confli...