![]() ![]() Many heads of state, veterans and officials will commemorate the 80th anniversary of D- Day. The official international ceremony will take place on Thursday 6 June 2024 on Omaha Beach. Lorkin / Anibas Photography THE INTERNATIONAL CEREMONY A huge firework display will light up the sky over the 5 Landing Beaches simultaneously. The date of Saturday 1st June, at nightfall, has been chosen for this event, on the weekend ahead of 6 th June. ![]() Our hope is that your visit will present a special moment for you to share with your loved ones.įor this very special occasion, Normandy’s ambition is to offer a major family-friendly event, aimed at Normans and visitors alike, who have little or no access to official ceremonies. These important places are today imbued with fundamental and universal values such as Reconciliation, Peace and Freedom. It will be the perfect occasion for visitors to discover, or rediscover, the main memorial sites, the cemeteries, the key places and the museums which bear witness to this tragic period of time. A regional mobilisation will take place to celebrate this major ten-year anniversary. In 2024, Normandy will honour the memory of these events and the men and women who came from all over the world to liberate us. The Normandy region is encouraging all those who wish to express their gratitude to leave a testimonial on this webpage. Each anniversary year is the occasion to pay tribute to the fallen and to the veterans who will come to attend the commemorative events and celebrations organized in Normandy. It is often forgotten that the people of Normandy also paid a heavy price in those terrible battles. ![]() Normandy will bear the scars of the moment in history forever, and every year we remember and pay tribute to the veterans from America, Britain, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Poland, Australia, France and their brothers in arms, to those many heroes who lost their lives here during that summer, and are at rest in the cemeteries to be found throughout the area. On 6th June 1944, and during the long summer which followed, soldiers from the world over came to fight in Normandy to defeat Nazism and to re-establish Freedom. Many heads of state, veterans and officials will commemorate the 80th Anniversary the D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy. The international ceremony will take place on Omaha Beach on Thursday 6 June 2024. ![]()
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