D-Day and Its Ties to Cape Cod

Name: D-Day and Its Ties to Cape Cod
Start: 2024-07-31T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-07-31T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Falmouth Historical Society

Schedule

Wed Jul 31 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Falmouth Historical Society | Falmouth, MA

This lecture is in conjunction with our new exhibition “From Cape Cod to Normandy: Falmouth’s Role in World War II’s D-Day Invasion”
About this Event

D-Day and Its Ties to Cape Cod

by Joe Yunkna, Cape Cod Military Museum - July 31 at 2pm

Learn about the capes' amazing connections to the most important day of the 20th century. Will will discuss the technical innovations developed here and employed in Normandy. There were many military units that trained on the Cape's beaches before hitting Omaha and Utah Beach on that fateful day. There were boats and ships that went to France not to take lives but to save them . Watch the hour photo lecture surrounded by our Falmouth to Normandy display.

This lecture is in conjunction with our new exhibition “From Cape Cod to Normandy: Falmouth’s Role in World War II’s D-Day Invasion”

$20 Non-Member/$10 Museum Members, or donation based ticket. Light Refreshments Served.