I remember when this happened in 2013. Awesome tribute to D-Day and the International Day of Peace.
'Fallen 9000' Project: Thousands Of Stenciled Bodies In The Sand Serve As Poignant D-Day Tribute.
A Massive, Moving Tribute To Those We Lost On D-Day.
An ambitious installation that was put together by hundreds of volunteers, the "Fallen 9000" project serves as a reminder of the staggering cost of lost peace.
A tribute to the roughly 9,000 civilians, Allies and German soldiers alike who lost their lives on D-Day, the project involved the painstaking stenciling of 9,000 silhouettes on the Normandy beach at Arromanches where so much blood was once shed.
Masterminded by U.K. sand artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, the project was completed 2013 on Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace, with the help of hundreds of international volunteers.
'The Fallen' is a visual representation of the thousands of human lives lost during the hours of the tide during the WWII Normandy landings on 6 June, 1944.
Eventually all of the sand silhouettes were eventually erased by the incoming tide.
Approximately 160,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy on that fateful day in 1944. At least 10,000 of them became casualties.