A D Day flag is set to fly in Ulverston next month at the exact same time the first boats landed in Normandy in 1944.

To commemorate the 80th anniversary, the special flag will be hoisted at 6.30am on June 6 to coincide with the first boats arriving at the beaches.

The Normandy landings were part of the largest invasion ever assembled in which 156,000 allied troops  arrived by sea and air at five beachheads in Normandy, France.

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D-Day was the start of allied operations which would ultimately liberate Western Europe, defeat Nazi Germany and end the Second World War.

A post was created on the dedicated Sir John Barrow monument Facebook page today (May 29) inviting people to the top of Hoad Hill for the historic moment.

The post also gave very good reasons why the flag hoisting was not timed for midnight. 

It went on to read: "I appreciate that D Day started with paratroopers at midnight, but I didn’t want to raise the flag in the dark and risk anyone hurting themselves on the way down in darkness, so I chose to use the beach landing timing."