American Landing Monument -WW1
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On the water edge. Monument
The American Monument stands as the exact replica of the first monument which was blown up by the Germans on 13 December 1941. It consists of a stone column on which stands a bronze eagle with his wings opened with an American soldier on top carrying a sword in his right hand. The new monument was erected by a French committee and was dedicated on 24 June 1989.
Original monument dedicated in 1926 commemorating the landing of American troops in St. Nazaire designed by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
From the Saint Nazaire City website:
The “American monument“, nicknamed “Sammy” or even “Saint-Nazaire’s statue of Liberty”, was inaugurated in 1927, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the arrival of American troops in Saint-Nazaire during World War I. The German army destroyed the monument in 1941, but due to a Franco-American subscription campaign, it was rebuilt in 1989.
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16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
28th Infantry Regiment
2nd U.S. Field Signal Battalion
5th Marine Regiment
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
S.S. Antiles
S.S. Dakotan
S.S. Edward Luckenbach
S.S. El Occidente
S.S. Finland
S.S. Havana
S.S. Lenape
S.S. Mallory
S.S. Momus
S.S. Montanan
S.S. Pastores
S.S. San Jacinto
S.S. Saratoga
S.S. Tenadores
U.S. Ambulance Co. No. 13
U.S. Bakery No. 9
U.S. Base Hospital No. 18
U.S. Field Hospital No. 13
U.S. Quartermasters Corps
U.S. Stevendore companies Nos. 1,2,3,4
U.S.S. Allen
U.S.S. Ammen
U.S.S. Aphrodite
U.S.S. Benham
U.S.S. Birmingham
U.S.S. Burrows
U.S.S. Charleston
U.S.S. Conyngham
U.S.S. Corsair
U.S.S. Cummings
U.S.S. Cushing
U.S.S. Cyclops
U.S.S. Davis (DD-395)
U.S.S. De Kalb
U.S.S. Drayton
U.S.S. Ericsson
U.S.S. Fanning
U.S.S. Hancock
U.S.S. Henderson
U.S.S. Jacob Jones
U.S.S. Jarvis
U.S.S. Kanawha
U.S.S. McDougal
U.S.S. Nicholson
U.S.S. O'Brien (DD-725)
U.S.S. Parker
U.S.S. Patterson
U.S.S. Paulding
U.S.S. Porter
U.S.S. Sampson
U.S.S. Seattle
U.S.S. Shaw
U.S.S. St. Louis
U.S.S. Terry
U.S.S. Trippe
U.S.S. Tucker
U.S.S. Wadsworth
U.S.S. Wainwright
U.S.S. Walke (DD-723)
U.S.S. Warrington
U.S.S. Wilkes
U.S.S. Winslow
United States Air Force
United States Army
United States Navy
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WWI