2nd US Infantry Division Memorial at Omaha Beach (Normandy, France)
N 49° 21.874 W 000° 51.821
30U E 655106 N 5470179
...close of the seashore at infamous "Bloody Omaha Beach", close to ruin of German bunker, you can find a black stone stele with symbol of "Indianhead", the memorial devoted to the 2nd US Infantry Division.
Waymark Code: WM6JT8
Location: Normandie, France
Date Posted: 06/11/2009
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The 2nd US Infantry Division memorial is 2.5 m high glossy-black stone stele with engraved Division' symbol, "Indianhed", and with following epigraph:
Second Infantry Division
United States of America
For Those Who Fought and Died for Freedon 1944-45
The stele is located on public grounds in coastal part of village Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, next to the ruins of German WW-II bunker, circa 200 m from the seashore (high tide). Place is very windy but also offers a perfect vista over seashore of famou Omaha beach...
The 2nd US Infantry Division, also known as "Indianhead", was one of the immediate follow-up American Infantry Divisions used in the invasion of France in early June of 1944. The division would land in the Omaha Beach sector, the bloodiest beach of the invasion, and quickly move to support the center of the V Corps bridgehead.