D-DAY REFERENCE BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RON TUNISON

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Hardcover volume titled “6 JUNE 1944 – SOLDIERS IN NORMANDY” by Philippe Charbonnier and published by Histoire Et Collections, Poole, Dorset, England in 1998.

The volume meas. approx. 9.75 x 12.50 inches with full color printed cover. Corners of the covers show light wear but are otherwise good. Volume runs 160 pages. Interior is in good condition with numerous color photographs of soldiers and equipment.

The inside front cover has Mr. Tunison’s name and the date he received the book. Also, in the back is a newspaper article from 2001 discussing the effect of the D-Day landings on the town of Bedford, Virginia.

Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the “Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five-foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for “General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander”, took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.  Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues.  [ad] [ph:L]

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