Rock from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
View
@ National Museum of African American History and Culture
Hattye T. Yarbrough, American
Description
Small circular black-flecked white rock with the inscription: [D-DAY / JUNE 6, / 44] written in black marker. 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.
Ink On Rock
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Hattye Thomas Yarbrough