It was 26 years ago when Tom Hanks starred as Captain John H Miller in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.

The Oscar-winning war epic, considered one of the greatest films ever made, recreated the horrors of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach 80 years ago today.

Now the star and director have reunited this morning to attend the US ceremony marking Operation Overlord, when the Allies invaded Nazi-occupied France and went on to defeat Hitler less than a year later.

The film saw Hanks’…