First Saturdays at the Museum: Return to the Beaches! D-Day - June 6, 1944

Return to the beaches!
D-DAY
June 6, 1944

Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm
with Historian Phil Devlin

The Allied assault on German-occupied Normandy, France was unlike any other, in a war unlike any other.A force of nearly 160,000 landed on the beaches that day, including 73,000 Americans; more than 57,000 arrived by sea, and more than 15,000 landed by parachute and glider. And this was merely the initial invasion. Along those 50 miles of desolate beach, more than 10,000 allied Troops would be casualties on that single day, 2400 Americans on Omaha Beach alone.

By the end of June, nearly a million men, a half a million tons of supplies and 150,000 vehicles would be landed on those beaches, beginning months of hard fighting in campaigns that would result in eventual Nazi surrender and the liberation of an occupied Europe.

Join us at the museum, along with WWII historian Phil Devlin, for a closer look at this amazing historic event.

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