Ceremony for the French Citizens of Sainte-Mere-Eglise

Event Details

Hop aboard the USS Yorktown for a ceremony honoring the French Citizens who are visiting Charleston from the town of Sainte-Mère-Église. The town was the first to be liberated from Nazi Germany following D-Day in World War II. Many in the group were children at the time of the invasion and are now members of the Friends of American Veterans Association.

12:30pm

The event is free for French nationals. For others, it will be included in the normal museum admission price.

For more information on what the Friends of American Veterans Association does, and how Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy was liberated, visit these websites:

http://www.avanormandie.org/en/ava/partners-links/

http://www.normandy1944.org.uk/ste_mere_eglise.htm

For more information about this event, please visit the website provided.