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NORMANDY LANDINGS MONUMENT

The monument commemorating the Normandy landings is situated at Saltash Passage, where a slipway was built to facilitate the departure of V and VII Corps of the United States Army on June 6th 1944 for the D-Day landings.  A commemorative tablet was unveiled on Normandy Hill, otherwise known as US Army route 23, the route taken to the slipway, by the Mayor of Cherbourg, M René Schmitt, in May 1947. 

On May 13th 1958 the American Ambassador (His Excellency John Hay Whitney) unveiled a monument constructed from broken slabs of granite, between 10 and 12 feet high, salvaged from the blitzed streets.  It is symbolic of the young lives sacrificed for victory.  The monument was dedicated by the Vicar of St Budeaux, the Reverend Prebendary J T T Browne.

 

 

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