Het originele Amerikaanse bijschrift luidt: 'Mass celebrated near first American cemetery in France. Chaplain Paul J.

Het originele Amerikaanse bijschrift luidt: 'Mass celebrated near first American cemetery in France. Chaplain Paul J. McGovern, former pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Danvers, Massachusetts, conducts Mass on a beachhead in Normandy, France, near one of the first American cemeteries in France. A barbed wire rings the graves in the foreground while in the background motorized and amphibious vehicles plough up the beach.' De eerste tijdelijke begraafplaats bevond zich in St. Laurent, net onder Omaha Beach.