Best pics of the week: June 3, 2019

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  • A historical floatilla is followed by a Royal Navy ship as it sails behind a Brittany ferry transporting D-Day Veterans to Caen and the Normandy beaches where they will pay their respects to fallen comrades on June 03, 2019 in Portsmouth, England. Thursday 6th June is the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings which saw 156,000 troops from the allied countries including the United Kingdom and the United States join forces to launch an audacious attack on the beaches of Normandy, these assaults are credited with the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. A series of events commemorating the 75th anniversary are planned for the week with many heads of state travelling to the famous beaches to pay their respects to those who lost their lives. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
  • A home-made Indigenous Defense Fighter jet (IDF) takes off from the freeway in Changhua county, central Taiwan, during the 35th Han Kuang military drill on May 28, 2019. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter takes part in the “Multinational CIMIC Exercise, ARGONAUT 2019, Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations, a rescue drill in which the militaries of Cyprus, Greece, France, Britain, Israel, Germany and the US participated on May 30, 2019 off the coast of Mari between the southern ports of Larnaca and Limassol in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. (IAKOVOS HATZISTAVROU/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Graduates celebrate and throw up their caps as the Air Force Thunderbirds fly overhead during the 2019 graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy May 30, 2019, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Three Chinese warships are seen docked at Garden Island naval base in Sydney on June 3, 2019. – Australians were surprised by the sight of three Chinese warships steaming into to Sydney Harbour, on June 3, 2019 forcing the prime minister to reassure jittery residents. (PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A crew member walks past a row of fighter jets Rafale parked on the flight deck of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during a media tour at Changi Naval Base in Singapore on May 28, 2019. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Yemeni fighters loyal to the country’s exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fire from a tank during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels in the country’s third-city of Taez on May 30, 2019. – Taez, in southern Yemen, is under siege by the Huthis but controlled by pro-government forces, who are supported by the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. (AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Four US-made Bell AH-1W Supercobra helicopters launch rockets during the 35th “Han Kuang” (Han Glory) military drill in southern Taiwan’s Pingtung county on May 30, 2019. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • A ROK army soldier aims his machine gun during an anti-terror drill as part of the Ulchi Taeguk exercise at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 27, 2019. The four-day exercises will include massive civilian evacuation drills and a South Korea-only military drill aimed at preparing for war situations and disasters. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
  • The Italian Air Force aerobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) spreads smoke with the colors of the Italian flag over (FromL) the Altare della Patria monument, Trajan’s Column and the Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano church (R) in the city of Rome on June 2, 2019 as part of the Republic Day ceremony. (LAURENT EMMANUEL/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Visitors watch as CH-47 Chinook helicopters fly over the remains of Mulberry harbor, a temporary harbor built off the coast of Normandy by the British during World War II in 1944 in Arromanches-les-Bains, northwestern France on May 30,2019 during a rehearsal for DDAY commemorations. – The D-Day ceremonies on June 6, 2019, will mark the 75th anniversary since the launch of ‘Operation Overlord’, a vast military operation by Allied forces in Normandy, which turned the tide of World War II, eventually leading to the liberation of occupied France and the end of the war against Nazi Germany. (DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images)
  • US-made CM-11 tanks (in background) are fired in front of two 8-inch self-propelled artillery guns during the 35th “Han Kuang” (Han Glory) military drill in southern Taiwan’s Pingtung county on May 30, 2019. – The maneuvers in Taiwan come after the US, Japan, South Korea and Australia kicked off operation “Pacific Vanguard” near Guam, bringing together more than 3,000 sailors from the four countries last week. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)