Alongside the 1,475 silhouettes, the project will also install bespoke 'giants'
The stunning instillation will be available to visit throughout Summer next year
By Taryn Pedler
Published: 19:04 EDT, 18 April 2024 | Updated: 05:26 EDT, 19 April 2024
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 Standing with Giants silhouettes are part of the For Your Tomorrow installation at the British Normandy Memorial, in Ver-Sur-Mer, France.
In a stunning nod to the servicemen who fell on D-Day itself, almost 80 years ago, the fields within the British Normandy Memorial campus have been filled with two-metre-tall statues of soldiers - representing the three military services.
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.
The two heroic women died while saving 75 men from a sinking hospital ship.
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