Student musicians from Hillgrove High School in Cobb County traveled to France this week for Thursday's D-Day 75th anniversary observance.
> UPDATE: Cobb students brought their music to D-Day in France
The students, members of the school's marching band and orchestra, were scheduled to perform during anniversary events at the American cemeteries in Normandy and Brittany, according to the Cobb County School District.
Hillgrove High School is located in Powder Springs.
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Thursday, June 6 is the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the start of a massive invasion by American and allied troops into German-occupied France.
President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron will participate in ceremonies at the Normandy American Cemetery. The American cemeteries are final resting places of many U.S. soldiers killed in Europe during the war.
D-Day 75th Anniversary in Georgia
> Georgia veteran recalls gripping scene on Omaha Beach 75 years later
> Atlanta and Georgia events, including observance at National Infantry Museum
> Remembering four Georgians who were killed in the Normandy invasion
> An Atlanta journalist broadcast the first eyewitness reports from D-Day
> From Atlanta 1944: Soldiers at an Atlanta army hospital hear the D-Day news
> On this 75th anniversary, many D-Day veterans have passed
> Foe, now friend: Germans find place at D-Day sites in France
> President Trump reads FDR's 1944 D-Day prayer at ceremony in England
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