06/07/2026
Today VFW Post 12152 would like to recognize the 82nd anniversary and honor the patriotic fighters of D-Day.
Codename Operation Neptune, the mission began on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, and commenced the largest known seaborne invasion in world history. The assault began at the beaches of Normandy to liberate Nazi-occupied France in World War II — D-Day.
The seaborne operation followed a 1,200-plane airborne assault, codenamed Operation Overlord, that officially ended on August 30, 1944, and involved the countries of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Greece, and South Africa.