BRITAIN-WWII-VETERANS

Former Commando Pat Churchill stands in the map room where the D-Day landing beaches are marked at Southwick House near Portsmouth on June 2, 2014. The allied naval headquarters were based at Southwick House and the map room is where US General Dwight D. Eisenhower the Supreme Allied Commander made the final decision to go ahead with the D-Day landings. Some 156,000-plus troops waded or parachuted onto French soil on June 6, 1944, approximately 4,500 of whom were dead by the day's end, in a defining moment of World War II .AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS (Photo credit should read ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)