NC S680

North Carolina Senate honors North Carolinians and Allied troops who fought during World War II on the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2019.

Battle of Normandy (Operation Overlord) lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, with more than 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces storming five beaches across 50 miles of France's Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.

More than 362,500 North Carolinians served during World War II, with 7,109 initially listed as killed or missing and approximately 10,000 confirmed killed or missing after ongoing recovery efforts; 39 North Carolinians confirmed died on D-Day.

Invasion involved over 5,000 ships and landing craft and more than 11,000 aircraft, with more than 4,400 Allied troops killed in the D-Day invasion.

Senate observes and honors the service and sacrifice of living and dead North Carolinians and Allied heroes who fought to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany.