Omaha Beach Memorial

This statue by artist Yannec Tomada commemorates the 116th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, who stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day in the beginning of the liberation of Europe. The plaque reads: Ever Forward In commemoration of the determined effort by the soldiers of the 29th Division's 116th Infantry Regimental Combat Team who landed the morning of June 6, 1944 on this section of Omaha Beach, known as Exit D-1, to open the Vierville Draw behind you to begin the liberation of Europe.

Date

2017

Photographer / author

Joe deSousa

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

5,951 × 3,973 pixels

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