{"title":"Normandy, 1944","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"les-braves-digital-download","title":"Les Braves — Digital Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe full-resolution file of this photograph, to print yourself at whatever size your printer and paper will carry. The real file, not a web-sized copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnilore Banon's steel sculpture stands on the sand at Vierville-sur-Mer, where the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions came ashore on 6 June 1944. It was unveiled on the sixtieth anniversary and is made of three parts — the Wings of Hope, Rise Freedom, and the Wings of Fraternity. Steel where they came ashore, and the sky doing most of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOmaha Beach, Normandy. August 2019. Canon 6D Mark II, 16–35mm.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLicensed for your own private use: print it, frame it, keep it. Not licensed for resale or commercial use. 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