#LégionDhonneur – The French Navy's BCR Somme (A 631) hosted one of the last surviving Irish veterans of the D-Day landings and who received the nation's highest military honour today in Dublin Port.

Michael d'Alton (93) received the Légion d'Honneur on board the command logistics supply-ship which as previously reported on Afloat.ie is on a courtesy visit of the capital.

Mr d'Alton was a sub-lieutenant on a landing craft bringing Sherman tanks across to Omaha Beach in the American sector on June 6th, 1944.

The landings at the beach inspired the opening sequence of the film Saving Private Ryan. It was based on the experience of the first companies of American soldiers who tried to take the heavily fortified Dog Green sector of the beach.

For more on this story, The Irish Times reports HERE.