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Thursday, June 6, 2024 is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. CBN News offers the following report on the upcoming commemoration and events leading up to it.

Forty years ago, on June 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan delivered two speeches at the ceremonies at Normandy commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

First, Reagan spoke at Omaha Beach.

Later in the day, he spoke at Pointe du Hoc, which is situated east of Utah Beach and four miles east of the middle of Omaha Beach. During the invasion, securing Pointe du Hoc was essential. Allied forces had to scale a cliff more than 100 feet high in the face of German assaults against them.

Point du Hoc / Photo by Spencer James Lucas at Unsplash

President Reagan speaks at Pointe du Hoc on June 6, 1984.

You can download both of President Reagan’s speeches commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day here.

Additional highlights of D-Day and D-Day anniversaries at Word Foundations are available here:

75th anniversary, June 6, 2019 — includes FDR’s D-Day prayer and General Eisenhower’s charge to the Allied Forces

77th anniversary, June 6, 2021

78th anniversary, June 6, 2022 — includes links to “A Visit to the Shores of Normandy,” a series of radio broadcasts that aired on Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk

FDR’s D-Day prayer and General Eisenhower’s charge to the Allied Forces

NBC News special D-Day radio broadcast: Cross-Country Reaction to D-Day

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