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Vice President Mike Pence celebrated the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings with a note addressed to those who served in the fight against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers.

Writing on Twitter Saturday, Pence said the memory of U.S. and other Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in German-occupied France during World War II lives on in the freedom they secured for "decades to come."

"On the 76th Anniversary of #DDay, we pause to remember the more than 130,000 American and Allied troops whose selfless heroism on the beaches of Normandy secured freedom for decades to come," Pence wrote.

More than 150,000 Allied troops used amphibious carriers to land along the 50-mile French coastline on June 6, 1944, in what would mark the beginning of the end for Germany on the Western Front.

The battle, code-named Operation Neptune, is remembered through photos, including one shared in Pence's tweet, and grainy films of troops pushing through strong ocean currents and poor weather to reach the beaches before charging into Nazi machine gunfire. More than 10,000 troops died in the process of securing the strategic coastline.

Pence said the people of the United States will be "forever grateful" to the veterans who claimed victory in World War II.

"We will never forget or fail to honor the sacrifice of those who did not come home and our Nation will be forever grateful for the bravery and service of the Greatest Generation," added Pence in a follow-up tweet.

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'The Greatest Generation': Pence honors 'selfless heroism' of WWII veterans on 76th anniversary of D-Day - Washington Examiner