Commemorating the 82nd Anniversary of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 2026

Assembly Resolution No. 1616

BY: M. of A. Eachus

        COMMEMORATING  the  82nd  Anniversary of the D-Day
        invasion on June 6, 2026

  WHEREAS, June 6, 2026, will mark the 82nd Anniversary of the  Allied
assault  at Normandy, France, by troops of the United States, the United
Kingdom and Canada, known as Operation Overlord; and

  WHEREAS, The naval phase of  the  Allied  assault  at  Normandy  was
coded,  Operation  Neptune, and the date June 6, 1944, is referred to as
D-Day to denote the day on which the combat attack was initiated; and

  WHEREAS, The D-Day landing was the largest combined armed amphibious
assault in history including approximately 132,600 members of the Allied
Expeditionary Force, including 57,500 members of the United States Armed
Forces,  more  than  23,000  airborne  troops  supporting  the  seaborne
landings and more than 14,000 sorties by Allied aircraft; and

  WHEREAS,  D-Day,  a day now known as the greatest amphibious landing
in history; and

  WHEREAS, It consisted of five infantry divisions, two American,  two
British,  and one Canadian, assigned to beaches code named, from west to
east Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword; and

  WHEREAS, The Americans constituted the United States 1st Army, under
Major General Omar Bradley, and the  British  2nd  Army,  under  General
Miles Dempsey; and

  WHEREAS,  The  Supreme  Commander  of  the Allied Forces was General
Douglas D. Eisenhower; and

  WHEREAS, Of the approximately 10,000 Allied casualties  incurred  on
the first day of the landing, more than 6,000 were members of the United
States Armed Forces; and

  WHEREAS,  The Allied Assault and following operations were supported
by ships, aircraft, and troops from Australia, Belgium,  Czechoslovakia,
Free  Norway, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the Polish Armed
Forces in the West; and

  WHEREAS, The Normandy campaign was  a  stunning  success;  by  early
September  1944,  all  but  a  fraction of France had been liberated and
American and British/Canadian forces occupied Belgium and  part  of  the
Netherlands and had reached the German frontiers; and

  WHEREAS,  The Royal Mint will be issuing a commemorative 50p coin in
tribute  of  the  allied  troops;  the  coin  depicts  allied   soldiers
disembarking  from  a  landing  craft with offensive aircraft in the sky
onto the beaches of Normandy; and

  WHEREAS, The State of New York owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  the
members   of   the   military  who  participated  in  this  historically
significant event; and


  WHEREAS,  It  is the sense of this Legislative Body that when events
of such historical consequences  are  brought  to  our  attention,  they
should  be  celebrated  and  recognized by all its citizens of the great
State of New York; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
commemorate  the 82nd Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion on June 6, 2026;
and be it further

  RESOLVED, That copies of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to  the National World War II Museum located in New Orleans
and the National D-Day Memorial located in Virginia.