Alongside the 1,475 silhouettes, the project will also install bespoke 'giants' to represent the only two women on the Memorial, nurses Sisters Evershed and Field.
An impressive 1,475 statues have filled the landscape beside a D-Day memorial overlooking France 's Golden Beach in honour of each of the servicemen who fell during the historic mission.
The staggering number of silhouettes represents the number of fatalities under British command on June 6, 1944Images of the project, which launched this Spring and open next Summer, show lush green fields dotted with figures that cast long shadows across the grass as the sun sets in the distance. Standing with Giants is a community project, set up in 2019 by Oxfordshire community artist, Dan Barton, and a group of local volunteers.
The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.Inscribed in stone, their names have never, until now, been brought together.
What were the D-Day landings?The landings, codenamed Operation Overlord, involved British, American, and other Allied forces crossed the English Channel to launch an offensive on the Nazi occupation in Normandy.
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