Photograph of a Monument to a Dead American Soldier Somewhere on the Shell Blasted Shore of Normandy. "Ours Not To Reason Why --". The beachhead is secure, but the price was high. A Coast Guard Combat Photographer came upon this monument to a dead American soldier somewhere on the shell blasted shore of Normandy. Comrades had used fighting equipment of the killed invaders to erect the monument in his honor before they pressed inland on the heels of Nazis retreating before the irresistible force of the D Day assault upon Hitler's Atlantic Wall.

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Photo credit: © NB/USC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 17-a2-170, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg