Cliffs at Pourville by Claude Monet USS Samuel B Roberts 50 Giclée Edition (Limited Edition

50 Giclée Edition (Limited Edition

for more than two hours until mortally wounded by the enemy

31st fought without fame and with little recognition

out on the plains

the newly formed Task Force assumed the name of the beaches the regiment stormed more than 60 years prior - Normandy

Cliffs at Pourville by Claude Monet USS Samuel B Roberts 50 Giclée Edition (Limited EditionIn February 1882, Claude Monet went to Normandy to paint, one of many such expeditions that he made in the 1880s. This was also a retreat from personal and professional pressures. His wife, Camille, had died three years earlier, and Monet had entered into a domestic arrangement with Alice Hosched (whom he would marry in 1892, after her husbands death). France was in the midst of a lengthy economic recession that affected Monets sales. In addition, the