D-Day re-creation set for Aug. 15-17 in Conneaut

Eighty years after allied forces landed on the beaches of France, you can experience some of the history made during the D-Day Invasion this August on the shores of Lake Erie about an hour north of Youngstown.

Free tickets are available online for the 2024 D-Day Conneaut event on August 15-17th in celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944.

This year’s event celebrates the people, machines, and events leading up to and surrounding the greatest amphibious landing ever attempted.

The reenactment is a realistic re-creation of the WWII European Theater of Operations and the D-Day Normandy invasion.

Since 1999, the re-creation of the events surrounding the Allied landings on the coast of Normandy has been experienced by thousands of spectators.

Hundreds of re-enactors from across the United States and Canada assemble at Conneaut Township Park on the 250 yards of beach and adjacent slope, which event organizers say closely resemble Omaha Beach.

Other areas of the park are the stage for re-creations of inland skirmishes between the occupying German soldiers, French resistance fighters, and Allied parachute and Glider infantry.

Encampments of Allied and Axis units provide spectators with a 1940's military experience. The Seaside, home life, and camp life of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in the actual landings are recreated with original equipment, uniforms, and vehicles.

Some of this year’s events include artillery and tank firing, paratrooper airborne drops, and encampments, highlighted with a re-creation of the Normandy beach landing.

Non-combat G.I. life is also recreated with a camp show and USO dance.

Free tickets are also available for a ride on a Higgins boat, the landing craft used for many amphibious landings during the war.

A link to free tickets, events, and shuttle information is available by following the below link:

https://ddayohio.us/schedule.html#Tickets

More information may be found on the website below:

https://ddayohio.us/

The annual re-enactment is put on by the non-profit organization D-Day Ohio, Inc. whose mission is to faithfully preserve the events of June 6, 1944, by annually sponsoring "D-day Conneaut".