Photos: Surviving Normandy Veterans share wartime portraits before D-Day

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Royal Navy D-Day veteran Matthew Toner, now aged 93. He was one of the first serviceman to land on the beaches in Normandy. Matthew joined up with the Royal Navy in 1941 aged just 16 and saw service at Anzio and Salerno. D-Day followed and after picking up troops and heavy transport vehicles in Southampton, Matthew set sail as part of Operation Overlord in a flotilla of over 5,000 ships heading for Normandy and landing at Juno Beach. Handout via Getty Images