A paratrooper lands on Sword Beach near international flags during a D-Day celebration rehearsal in Ouistreham, on the Normandy coast June 5, 2014. Some 18 heads of state will attend ceremonies bringing together 3,000 veterans in Normandy where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944 in a seaborne invasion that sped up the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War Two. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (FRANCECONFLICT ANNIVERSARY - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CONFLICT MILITARY)