While many weeklies this week carried stories and supplements about the D-Day landings, to mark the event’s 60th anniversary, the Bucks Herald gave its entire front page over to a tribute.

It combined one of the day’s most striking images with a 16-page D-Day supplement, designed in the style of a newspaper from 1944, complete with genuine advertisements from the era.

The supplement featured stories from the men from Aylesbury that took part, and editor David Summers said: “For them D-Day is more than pages in a history book, or graphic images in countless history books or films.

“It is their lives, their stories and their experience.”

David added: “We decided that this fantastic picture from the Imperial War Museum needed no headline, the image said it all.

“The Bucks Herald has also launched a fundraising appeal for our local branch of the Normandy Veterans Association to tie in with D-Day.

“All in all it was a fantastic effort by all the reporters and photographers at the paper, and was a fitting tribute to those who risked their lives in what was an historic event.”

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