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, MORE AT First Saturdays at the Museum: D-Day, Return to the Beaches - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill
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