SMU band performs at d-day ceremonies in Normandy
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The SMU Mustang Band performed at Normandy d-day ceremonies in Normandy, France today.
Director Tommy Tucker and the band performed at the international d-day ceremony on June 6 at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial on d-day.
The band was originally scheduled to perform at 2021 d-Day ceremonies, but the trip was postponed due to COVID-19.
The band of 59 was the official band representing the United States at the d-day Memorial Parade in Sainte-Mère-Église, the first village to liberated from Nazi occupation by American paratroopers, and at ceremonies at the American Cemetery in Brittany and the American Cemetery at Omaha Beach.
