June 6, 2023 marks the 79th anniversary of D-Day. (Photo: Centre Juno Beach/Juno Beach Centre Facebook page)

By Curtis Galbraith

Recognizing the 79th anniversary of D-Day

Jun 6, 2023 | 3:01 PM

GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB – Tuesday, June 6, 2023 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.

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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.

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