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Rock from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944

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Hattye T. Yarbrough, American

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Small brown streaked rock with the inscription: [D-DAY / JUNE 6, 44] written in black ink. This rock was retrieved from a Normandy beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, by Master Sergeant Wallace B. Jackson of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion and sent to Hattye T. Yarbrough, an educator and wife of a veteran.
Format:
Ink On Rock
Rights:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Hattye Thomas Yarbrough
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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

  1. African American
  2. African Americans
  3. Military
  4. World War Ii
  5. World War, 1939 1945
  6. Yarbrough, Hattye T

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