: Marina, Concert of Kick Aaron band “The Nashville Exile”Ĩ p.m. : Parade until the city hall followed by a ceremony at the Signal Monument at 5 p.m.ĩ p.m.
: Saint Côme du Mont road, Historic parachute jump with the RCPT.Ĥ.30 p.m. The 5th june at 9 p.m : Jazz concert before the show.Ĭontact and booking : Donville manor > 0033 233 40 02 33ġ1 a.m. Friday 4th and Saturday 5th june at 6.30 p.m ( concert at 5 p.m before the show only on saturday)Ģ2.45 p.m. : La Maison Haut place, Ceremony and inauguration of the Douglas C-47 Memorial garden.Ĭontact : Picauville se Souvient : / 0033 233 41 02 48 : Ceremony at the 507e PIR MonumentĬontact : U.S Normandie Mémoire > p.m. : Ceremony at the 90e DIV/82nd Airborne Monumentġ1.30 a.m. Departure :Ĭontact : U.S Normandie Mémoire > 2nd juneĥ p.m : city hall, Inauguration of the monument in tribute to the 2nd ArmoredĬontact : city hall > / 0033 233 42 74 00ġ0 a.m. Follow the paths of 101st airborne paratroopers. : Cauquigny chapel, ceremony followed by a reception ( to be confirmed)Ĭontact : U.S Normandie Mémoire > p.m. : Theater, Conference with Denis Van den Brink about the battle of Carentan.Ĭontact : city hall > / 00330 233 42 74 00ġ0.30 a.m. As long as freedom lives their deeds will never die.10 a.m. On that June morning the young of our nations stepped out on those beaches below and into history. John Elleryġ0. "Sixty-five years ago in the thin light of gray dawn, more than 1,000 small craft took to a rough sea on a day that will be forever a day of bravery. I was king of the hill, at least in my own mind, for a moment." - Sgt. No matter what happened, I had made it off the beach and reached the high ground. It had been the greatest experience of my life. "The first night in France I spent in a ditch beside a hedgerow wrapped in a damp shelter-half and thoroughly exhausted. They fight to liberate." - Franklin Rooseveltĩ. "For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. It began here, with the first footprints on the beaches of Normandy." - George W.
And history will always record where that road began. "That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary and valiant men. The Germans could have swept us away with brooms if they knew how few we were and what condition we were in." - Pvt. I ran into a bunch of my buddies from the company. "I crawled in over wounded and dead, but I couldn't tell who was who, and we had orders not to stop for anyone on the edge of the beach, to keep going or we would be hit ourselves. came down to a battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide." - Barack ObamaĦ. "It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century. "Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. "This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred." - Winston ChurchillĤ. I shut everything out and concentrated on following the men in front of me down the ramp and into the water." - Pfc. "As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell. We're going down there, and we’re throwing everything we have into it, and we’re going to make it a success." - EisenhowerĢ.
This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. "This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. Here are a few quotes, collected from USA Today and the National World War II M useum, to share on this day:ġ. The day is billed as "the beginning of the end of war in Europe." The operation behind D-Day, also called Operation Overlord, was actually planned to begin on June 5, 1944, under United States General Dwight D. "After years of meticulous planning and seemingly endless training, for the Allied forces, it all came down to this: The boat ramp goes down, then jump, swim, run and crawl to the cliffs."
"It is hard to conceive the epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end of Hitler's dream of Nazi domination," the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, writes on its website. The D-Day is said to be the largest seaborne invasion in history, with more than 160,000 soldiers landing on the beach in Normandy to take on the Nazi German fighters. It's been 77 years since D-Day, the pivotal World War II operation in which Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944.
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