D-Day 75th Anniversary Event

Date/Time

Date(s) - 06/06/2019
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Categories

• Special Event

Details of D-Day Activities

• This is a Free Event!
• We will show movies throughout the day in the Scott Theatre: including Papa Said at 1 pm and a D-Day Documentary at 2 pm
• The B-17G Flying Fortress in the Scott Hangar will be open from 11 am – 4 pm
• A WWII memorabilia display will be set up in the Scott Hangar next to the B-17
• There will be a Virtual Reality Simulator special for the day- $7 for any ride
• We will Giveaway 35^th Anniversary stickers and calendars
• Our Mascot, Barry the B-17, will be available to take pictures with
• There will be an opportunity to speak with WWII Veterans, from 1pm-4pm
• The Roxy’s Vixens will be dressed as cigarette girls and distribute candy
• The Southern Style Quartet will sing patriotic songs during the event

75th Anniversary Salute to our WWII Veterans

The Warner Robins Heritage Society will be honoring our WWII Veterans at the Museum of Aviation in the Nugteren Hangar on June 6 at 9:17am. Free to the public. Please come out and show these men how much you appreciate them. Our starting time is keeping with the publication of Statement No. 1. 75 years ago.

D-Day History

D-Day is the World War II military operation which took place on June 6, 1944. It was code-named Operation Neptune, presumably because it involved a water landing by the Allies on the beaches of Normandy, France. It is the largest military operation by sea in history, and it had great significance to the war. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.