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Photo credit: Centre Juno Beach/Juno Beach Centre Facebook page.
By Curtis Galbraith
Lest We Forget

79th anniversary of D-Day Tuesday

Jun 6, 2023 | 2:15 PM

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day.

On June 6, 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen attacked the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France.

That included thousands of Canadian soldiers that landed at Juno Beach.

The website for the Juno Beach Centre, a Canadian war museum in France, says 381 Canadians were killed in the fighting on D-Day and 5500 died during the Battle of Normandy. They were among 45,000 Canadians who died in World War II.

The centre hosted a ceremony to mark the anniversary Tuesday. The centre says that 500 people attended.

The ceremony included the Silence and the playing of The Last Post. The speeches included one from the daughter of a Canadian paratrooper who was killed on June 6, 1944.

More on Canada’s role in the D-Day invasion can be found here.

by Curtis Galbraith