Higgins Boat Monument, Utah beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Normandy, France

Soldier sculpture from the Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Soldier sculpture from the Higgins Boat Monument, with a life-sized replica of a LCVP or Higgins boat made of steel and set in sand as if beached, and sculptures by Fred Hoppe of soldiers running (1 from each of the 3 wars in which Higgins Boats served, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam Wars), inaugurated 2015, at Utah Beach, Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, Cotentin Peninsula, Manche, Normandy, France. The monument also features a statue of Andrew Jackson Higgins, 1886-1952, who designed the boat, of which 1089 were used in D-Day. The monument is next to the Utah Beach Museum. Utah Beach in the Dunes of Saint Martin de Vareville, is where on June 6th 1944 the US Army 4th Infantry Division landed as part of the Allied Invasion, or D-Day landings, during the Second World War. Picture by Manuel Cohen