Monday, May 26, 2014

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach

The Fallen 9000    " It was one of the decisive moments of the Second World War... One hundred and fifty thousand allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy... But D-Day came at a terrible cost. 9,000 fell in the initial fighting... and last weekend they were remembered on one of the French beaches where they died. Joe Inwood was there to see a unique project by artists from Yorkshire - honouring the fallen."
 

 
"British artists Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.
Hat tip to Walt Stier; Santa Maria, CA


The rusting hulks you see are from the "Mulberry" harbor built after D Day to offload ships. It was destroyed in a terrible storm at that time.

Visualize Arromanches as it must have looked on June 6th, 1944:

Bear in mind that all those dead were not just at Arromanches, but at the numerous landing sites shown below.

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