At the Normandy American Memorial

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is at Coleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, France. It overlooks the coastline that was code-named Omaha Beach during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. This was the beach where most of the troops from the USA landed on D-Day. The Memorial area is organized around a 22-foot tall bronze statue, “The Spirit of American Youth Rising From the Waves,” which can be glimpsed through the wall in this picture.