The Snapshots in Time Collection
Interior Operations Map, Memorial Loggia, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
This photograph shows the engraved operations map inside the memorial loggia at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, overlooking Omaha Beach. Dedicated in 1956, the memorial honors the American servicemen who died during the D-Day landings and subsequent Normandy campaign of June 1944, and its incised stone maps illustrate the invasion beaches and the Allied advance across the beachhead. Project: 218589