D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Friday 5th June
Méautis-Carentan
8.30 p.m. : Dinner-Jazz concert at the Manor of Donville.
Prior booking: 0033 (0)2 33 42 03 22 or 0033 (0)6 47 51 02 69.
11.30 p.m.: Night spectacle with theatre-cinema guided visit of vestiges from the battle field
and re-enactment of the take of the manor of Donville in June 1944.
Entrance fee: 10 €. Prior booking: 0033 (0)2 33 42 03 22 or 0033 (0)6 47 51 02 69.
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Saturday, 6th June
Carentan
During the day: Carentan Liberty March.
8.30 a.m.: Start from the church, diorama, animations.
Organization: CLG – carentanlibertymarch@outlook.com or http://carentanlibertygroup.forumgratuit.org/forum
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Friday 5th June
Catz
9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Military fair at the Normandy Tank Museum.
Entrance: 4 €.
Exhibitors: 15€/m.
Organization: Association the Black Lions – 06 16 16 36 00 or black-lions@sfr.fr
Gourbesville
10 a.m: Ceremony.
Organization: US Normandy Mémoire et Gratitude
– 0033 233 52 63 27 or Daniel.briard@hotmail.fr
71th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, June 2015
Wednesday 3rd June
5.30 p.m.: Ceremony for Peace in Sainte Mère Eglise, at Borne 0, in front of the townhall.
Organization: Townhall
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Saturday, 6th June
Carentan
During the day: Military fair, at the hall market,
direction Périers. Organization: BBB – 0033 671 96 46 70 or bbbww2@live.fr
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
In the night of the 5th to the 6th June
Azeville
Re-enactment of a parachute drop with C-47 planes and men in original uniforms.
Organization: RCPT – staff@rcpt.eu or www.rcpt.eu (To be confirmed)
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Friday 5th June
Utah Beach, Sainte Marie du Mont
Evening: Re-enactment of parachute drops from C-47 planes and Nord Atlas with men with original uniforms. Organization: RCPT – staff@rcpt.eu or www.rcpt.eu
8 p.m.: Concert by Utah Beach Band, 15 exceptional musicians that will play jazz standards of the 1940’s.
10 p.m.: Release of sky lanterns in honor of the 197 men who disappeared on D-Day on Utah Beach
71th Anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy, June 2015
Saturday 30st May – Sunday 7th June
Reconstruction of an American military camp
next to the Airborne Museum in Sainte Mère Eglise.
Organization: Airborne Museum
(with associations MVCG Bretagne, Overlord 76, Enfer Normand and V for Victory)
– 0033 233 41 41 35 or www.airborne-museum.org
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Friday 5th June
Sainte Mère Eglise
10 a.m.: Convoy of military vehicles (before the vintage car contest).
Start from Sainte Mère Eglise with stops in Ravenoville, at Leclerc Monument in Saint Martin de Varreville, Utah Beach, Sainte Marie du Mont, Saint Germain de Varreville,
Ravenoville, and Sainte Mère Eglise.
Organization: AVA – 06 08 45 24 65 or ballesterbarth@aol.com or contact@avanormandie.org
D-Day in Normandy the 71st Anniversary June 2015
Friday 5th June
Carentan
2.30 p.m.: Re-enactment of parachute drops above the marshlands
from C-47 planes with men with original uniforms.
Organization : RCPT – staff@rcpt.eu or www.rcpt.eu
5 p.m.: Official ceremony at Carré de Choux (in front of “But” furniture store).
Parade of soldiers and personalities to the Townhall.
Ceremony at Signal Monument. . Organization: Townhall