JUNE 2009
NORMANDY - UTAH BEACH |
Flags Fly
in the onshore breeze |
Utah Museum
houses may significant artifacts |
Monuments and Museum
are adjacent along Utah Beach |
 1st
Engineers Memorial
"IN PROUD MEMORY OF OUR DEAD" |
90th ID Memorial
in memory of their heroic dead, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945 |
 Officers
and Sailors Memorial
"the fallen will never be forgotten, the veteran will ever be
honored" |
|
 Ships
Memorial
names 14 Destroyers, 6 Destroyer Escorts, 1 Attack Transport, the
Naval Combat Demolition Units and the Amphibious Scouts and Raiders |
Sailor Sunset
evening sky highlights the Ships memorial |
 Artillery
Piece
points out to sea. It may be a relic of a German shore battery |
Muzzle Flare
as setting sun provides a spectacular backdrop |
Higgins Boats
with landing ramps dropped off hundreds of troops |
Beach Barriers
hedgehogs and barbed wire impeded the assault force |
M-4 Sherman
is displayed outside the museum |
Quackery
Utah Beach museum houses a "Duck" being viewed by Sophia van den
Berger |
Command Cars
stopped at the museum |
Command Bunker
Naval Communication Center established after previous residents were
kicked out |
 Plaque
cites that the bunker was used by USN personnel from 8 June through
31 October 1944 |
Sands of Remembrance
sand sculpture of G.I.'S features emblems of major divisions |
Buried In Time
this heavy caliber weapon with scope peers from the sand |
Beautiful Beach
today as scene of horror 65 years ago |
 Lone
Flag
flutters in the breeze at Utah Beach |
 505th
Authors
were present at Utah Beach and Deadman's Corner Museums for sales
and autographs of their work |
Bill Galbraith (506th PIR) |
Manny Barrios (506th PIR) |
|
All Normandy 'D-Day Plus 65' trip photos are a
multi-national mixture of work by Hervé Argoud, Hans DeBree, Gene Garren,
Fred Hoek, Herbert Lahout, Randy Lewellen, Cyndi Mathews, Bill Nation, Dick O'Donnell,
Dominique Potier, Vivian Roger, Zane Schlemmer, Donald van den Bogert and Nelly
van Loo-Polley. Individual credits have not been
given. |
