Greater Love Plaque
Details:
Inside a locked room of the bunker north of the museum. The room has a locked gate that you can look through to see the plaques Plaque Two large bronze plaques, one on the left side and one on the right, honoring the support servicemembers killed either during training for or during the invasion of Utah Beach. Many lost their lives during Exercise Tiger in the UK on 30 April 1944.
Monument Text:
Greater Love Hath No Man Than to Lay Down His Life for His Friends
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
1605th ENGR MAP DEP PLT
1st Engineer Special Brigade
24th Amphibious Truck Battalion
261st Medical Battalion
286th Signal Company
2nd US Naval Beach Battalion, United States Naval Reserve
306th Quartermaster Battalion
3206th Quartermaster Service Company
3207th Quartermaster Service Company
33rd Chemical Decontamination Company
3516th Ordnance Medium Automated Maintenance Company
3878th Quartermaster Gasoline Supply Company
38th Engineer General Service Regiment
4090th Quartermaster Service Company
4144th Quartermaster Service Company
432nd Quartermaster Service Company
462nd Amphibious Truck Company
478th Amphibious Truck Company
501st Medical Collecting Company
518th Port Battalion
519th Port Battalion
531st Engineer Shore Regiment
556th Quartermaster Railhead Company, 306th Quartermaster Battalion
557th Quartermaster Railhead Company, 306th Quartermaster Battalion
605th Ordnance Armament Maintenance Battalion
607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company
625th Ordnance Ammunition Company
815th Amphibious Truck Company
816th Amphibious Truck Company
818th Amphibious Truck Company
United States Army
United States Navy
Wars:
WWII
Battles:
Normandy Invasion