Les Braves de Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer monument. Erected on the sand of Omaha Beach, in homage to the 35,000 allied soldiers who landed there on 6 June 1944, and to the 3,000 victims, dead, missing and wounded on the evening of D-Day, the "Les Braves" monument, the work of the sculptor Anilore Banon, whose steel sails stand at the foot of the steps of the Signal monument in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, was inaugurated on 5 June 2004, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Calvados, Normandy, France