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D-Day and French War Memorials an 80th Anniversary Remembrance

  • Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science 411 Southeast Riverside Drive Evansville, IN, 47713 United States (map)

D-Day and French War Memorials an 80th Anniversary Remembrance

Thursday, May 30, 6 pm, Evansville Museum 

Dr. James MacLeod, Professor of History, Chair, Department of History, Politics, and Social Change, University of Evansville

In this presentation presented in partnership with the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, historian Dr. James MacLeod will discuss Operation Overlord, one of the most significant military operations of the 20th century and then describe some of the most important American war cemeteries and memorials that commemorate the huge cost paid in American lives to secure the freedom of Western Europe.

For free reservations, visit emuseum.org/rsvp.