FILE - In this Aug.15, 1944 file photo, barrage balloons hover overhead as a line of WW II Landing Ships Tanks are loaded with vehicles and supplies in a southern Italian harbor. For Allied troops in western Europe, D-Day was just the beginning of a long and bloody push toward victory over the Nazis. Ten weeks after commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France is paying tribute this week to Allied troops involved in another major, but often overlooked, military operation: landings on the Mediterranean coast. (AP Photo, File)