2-832-257 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

This stone was collected by an American soldier during the D-Day landings in northern France during World War II, and sent to African-American teacher and historian Hattye Thomas Yarbrough. 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, wife of a veteran and archivist of Black history.