We are pleased to share this important Heritage Minute by Historica Canada, commemorating Canada's role in the D-Day landings 75 years ago. We will never forget the service and sacrifice of the 14,000 Canadian soldiers who landed or parachuted into France on D-Day. | The Royal Canadian Legion - National Headquarters

Very few of those brave young Canadians who stormed the beaches of Normandy 80 years ago today are still around to tell the tale. On this, the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we remember the Canadian men and women who played a major role in the greatest seaborne invasion of all time, the Allied assault on Normandy on June 6, 1944, known as Operation Overlord. Learn more about D-Day and the Battle of Normandy and how Canadians helped begin the liberation of Western Europe, eventually leading to the en