Soldiers disembarking from barges on Normandy`s `Utah Beach`. Numerous ships in the background. Aircraft and parachutists in the sky.
Obverse lettering
D-DAY 6 JUIN 1944
NORMANDIE
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
The Route de la Liberté commemorates the Allied victory and liberation of France, Belgium and Luxembourg during the Second World War. It is marked by a series of milestones along the road network between Sainte-Mère-Église (milestone 0) and Utah Beach (milestone 00), in Normandy, and Bastogne, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, marking the route taken by the 3rd U.S. Army (Wikipedia). Six army division badges from left to right: - 1°/ 4th U.S. Army Division -2°/ Commando Kieffer -3°/ 90th U.S. Army Division -4°/ 82nd U.S. Army Airborne Division -5°/ U.S. 101st Airborne Division - 6°/ ?????
