LEWISTON – A memorial ceremony to remember the 65th anniversary of D-Day will take place at noon Saturday, June 6, at Veterans Memorial Park.

Jerry DerBoghosian will serve as master of ceremonies and Doug Taylor will offer the invocation and benediction.

The Normandy Landings, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord, commenced on June 6, 1944. D-Day was the term used for the day of the actual landing.

It began with an air assault after midnight followed by an amphibious landing on the coast of France. There were also subsidiary attacks mounted under the code names Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable to distract the Kriegsmarine and the German army from the real landing areas.

The operation was the largest single-day amphibious invasion of all time with 160,000 troops landing on June 6, 1944 along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy.

Casualties from the United States included 1,465 dead, 3,184 wounded, 1,928 missing and 26 captured.

All veteran organizations are invited to attend.

The event is sponsored by Posts 22, 111, 135 and 153, American Legion; Posts 1603, 9150, 9459 and auxiliary unit 9459, Veterans of Foreign War; Marine Corps League 810; and Post 31 and auxiliary unit 31, Franco American War Veterans.