D-DAY: Today is the 76th anniversary of D-Day.

We got our annual call from Bradford veteran Elmer Delucia this week reminding us of the anniversary.

DeLucia, who stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, tells us he will be turning 97 soon.

More than 160,000 Allied troops arrived that day, with more than 9,000 of them killed or wounded, according to the U.S. Army’s website.

Elmer says that more than 4,000 Allied troops were killed, and about 2,700 were Americans.

Our readers can mark the occasion by learning more about the battle that began the final year of World War II.

The National D-Day Memorial is offering virtual programs at www.dday.org/free-virtual-programs-spring-2020/

Here, visitors can tour the memorial from their computers. You can learn what it was like to be part of the Invasion of Normandy, France, by watching a video on the equipment soldiers carried on D-Day. You can learn about the only woman to have landed as part of the invasion, hear the stories of combat medics and watch how life changed for Americans after Pearl Harbor.

The website has free lesson plans for teachers who want to incorporate World War II knowledge into their curriculum.

At www.d-day.org — the website for the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. — the memorial’s stewards explain that the physical site is temporarily closed due to the pandemic.

The memorial will record its annual June 6 commemoration and post it at www.dday.org/virtual76/ so everyone can take part in honoring those who took part.

“Though we cannot gather, we still honor the valor, fidelity, and sacrifice of those who fought and died to end Nazi tyranny over Europe 76 years ago,” it is stated on the website.

According to the memorial website, throughout the day on June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied troops took part in an airborne and amphibious invasion of the beaches of Normandy.