Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
Object Details
- Description
- One brass shell casing (2012.8.2.5a) stored in a cardboard tube (2012.8.2.5b). The casing has an imprint on the headstamp: [P / unidentified mark / G / 190]. The tube has the inscription: "Shell casing from D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944/From: M.Sgt. Wallace B. Jackson/To: Hattye M. Thomas (Yarbrough)" written in blue ink. This shell casing was retrieved from a Normandy beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, by Master Sergeant Wallace B. Jackson of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion and sent to Hattye T. Yarbrough, an educator and wife of a veteran.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Hattye Thomas Yarbrough
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date
- 1944
- Object number
- 2012.8.2.5ab
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Master Sergeant Wallace B. "Jack" Jackson, American, born 1915
- Received by
- Hattye T. Yarbrough, American
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- souvenirs
- Medium
- brass (alloy) and cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8 × 1 1/4 × 1 1/4 in., 1 lb. (20.3 × 3.2 × 3.2 cm, 0.5 kg)
- Place collected
- France, Normandy, Europe
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Exhibition
- Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 053
- Topic
- African American
- Military
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2012.8.2.5ab
