Provenance

Catherine Ryan [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: (WX10-JULY 14) MONUMENT TO AN AMERICAN--A HELMET SURMOUNTING A PIECE / OF CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT STUCK INTO A MOUND OF EARTH MARKS THE / BURIAL SPOT ON THE NORMANDY BEACH OF A DEAD AMERICAN SOLIDER WHO / GAVE HIS LIFE IN THE FRENCH ASSAULT. (AP WIREPHOTO FROM COAST / GUARD) (MD61200)1944; on verso, upper center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; upper right stamped in blue ink: ARTISTS / 1955 MAY 25 PM 8:57; center left stamped in blue ink: TRIBUNE CUT ORDER / Subject [by unknown hand in graphite: Grave] / Size [by unknown hand in graphite: 5 1/2 " x 6 3/8"] / For [by unknown hand in graphite: Mail] edition on [crossed out in graphite] [by unknown hand in graphite: sm] / Ordered by [by unknown hand illegible initials in graphite] / Time Date; by unknown hand, center in black crayon: Cemetery; by unknown hand, center right in orange pencil perpendicular: #122 / 585-22; lower center stamped in red ink on applied paper: T MAY 29 1955 4; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 5 1/2 x 6 3/8; lower right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1955 MAY 25 PM 9:09; bottom center printed in black ink and circled in red ink inverted: WORLD WAR II - NORMANDY INVASION