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Mr Trump made the announcement during a reception of World War II veterans in the Presidential Oval Office, at the White House, in Washington DC.

: 鈥淚鈥檒l be there, I鈥檒l be there.鈥�

The event now known as 鈥淒-Day鈥� - or 鈥渢he Normandy landings鈥� - took place on June 6, 1944.

Code-named 鈥淣eptune鈥�, it is often judged to have been a turning point in the war, marking the beginning of France鈥檚 liberation from Nazi control, despite causing the loss of 9,000 Allied soldiers.

Mr Trump will not be the first US President to attend the commemoration events in recent years.

Former US President Barack Obama visited Normandy in 2014, for the 70th anniversary events, joining then-French President Fran莽ois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In a speech made at the time, Mr Obama said that veterans involved in the operation had helped tell the 鈥渟tory of the Allied victory鈥� and 鈥渁ll those French men and women who would rather have died resisting tyranny than lived within its grasp鈥�.

He added: 鈥淲hat we must not forget is that D-Day was a time and a place where the bravery and the selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century.鈥�

Mr Trump is also set to visit France in August this year, as part of the G7 summit in Biarritz.