D-Day Commemorations and Events
Ceremonies, parachute drops, re-enactments and exhibitions at the Normandy landing sites. Annual fixtures stay listed year round; the ones whose dates move from year to year are marked as estimates until the organisers publish them.
D-Day Festival Normandy
Across the landing coast and inland, from Utah Beach to Swor...
The umbrella programme for the anniversary: around a hundred parachute drops, parades, concerts, camps and firework displays spread along the whole landing coast.
D-Day Anniversary Ceremony, Normandy American Cemetery
Normandy American Cemetery
The 6 June ceremony above Omaha Beach: wreath-laying, addresses and a flypast among the 9,388 graves at Colleville-sur-Mer.
Carentan Liberty March
Carentan
Several hundred re-enactors in period uniform march through Carentan, preceded by a re-enactment of the civilian exodus and followed by an open-air ball.
La Fiere Parachute Drop
La Fière Bridge & Causeway
Round-canopy jumps over the drop zone beside La Fiere bridge, in the 82nd Airborne's sector west of Sainte-Mere-Eglise.