Nine vessels delivered so far with a full fleet replacement number of 72 needed.
A key vessel Marines need to move around in a potential island shootout with China is two years behind schedule.
Now bent with age, a dwindling number of WWII veterans joined a new generation of leaders on the shores where they landed 80 years ago.
June 6, 1944, began with Allied aircraft bombing German defenses in Normandy, followed by some 1,200 aircraft who carried airborne troops.
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