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[[Image:Nationald-daymemorial.jpg|250px|thumb|National D-Day Memorial pool with Overlord Arch]]
'''Adams''' may refer to:
The '''National D-Day Memorial''' is a national [[war memorial]] located in [[Bedford, Virginia|Bedford]], [[Virginia]]. It serves as the national memorial for US D-Day veterans. It stands in tribute to the valor, fidelity and sacrifice of all Allied Armed Forces during the [[D-Day|D-Day Invasion]] of [[Normandy]], [[France]] on June 6, [[1944]] during [[World War II]].
In 1944, Bedford had a population of about 3,200. Because this community proportionally suffered the nation’s severest D-Day losses, the [[United States Congress]] authorized construction of the memorial in Bedford.<ref>[http://www.dday.org/ The National D-Day Memorial Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==The Memorial==
==People==
*[[Adams (surname)]]
According to the memorial’s foundation, the memorial is formed of three distinct plazas. The first plaza, Reynold's Garden, symbolizes the planning activities for the invasion through the execution of the order for the invasion. It is in the shape of the [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force]] combat patch. The second level, Gray Plaza, reflects the landing and fighting stages of the invasion. It includes what is called the invasion pool with obstacles in the water, sculptures of soldiers struggling ashore, and a representation of the Higgins craft used for the invasion. This section includes jets of water rising from the pool replicating the sights and sounds of sporadic gunfire. The names of the United States' losses appear on the west wall of the central plaza, the Allies' losses on the east. In the spirit of Dwight Eisenhower's one-team command philosophy for the AEF, no other distinctions are made.<ref>[http://www.dday.org/ The National D-Day Memorial Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The last and uppermost plaza, Estes Plaza, celebrates victory and includes
the Overlord Arch and the twelve flags of those [[Allies|Allied nations]] that served in the [[Allied Expeditionary Force]]. The Overlord Arch represents the victory of Operation Overlord and bears the invasion date of June 6, 1944 in its height at 44 feet and 6 inches tall.Dedicated in 2001, over 750,000 people have visited the site.<ref>[http://www.dday.org/ The National D-Day Memorial Foundation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==See also==
==Places==
;The Moon
* [[National Museum of the Pacific War]]
*[[Adams (lunar crater)]]
* [[National World War II Memorial]]
;New Zealand
* [[National World War II Museum]]
*[[Adams River]] in New Zealand
* [[USMC War Memorial|United States Marine Corps War Memorial]] (Iwo Jima)
;Philippines
*[[Adams, Ilocos Norte]]
;United States
*[[Adams, Decatur County, Indiana]]
*[[Adams, Morgan County, Indiana]]
*[[Adams, Massachusetts]]
*[[Adams, Minnesota]]
*[[Adams, North Dakota]]
*[[Adams, Nebraska]]
*[[Adams (town), New York]]
**[[Adams (village), New York]]
*[[Adams, Oklahoma]]
*[[Adams, Oregon]]
*[[Adams, Tennessee]]
*[[Adams, Wisconsin]], city in Adams County
*[[Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin]], town
*[[Adams, Green County, Wisconsin]], town
*[[Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin]], town


==References==
==Other uses==
*[[Adams (automobile)]], an early 20th-century automobile
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*[[Adams (1903 automobile)]], an early 20th-century automobile
*[[Adams (brig)]], early 19th-century ship
*[[Adams (constructor)]], a former racing car constructor
*[[USS Adams|USS ''Adams'']], several ships
*[[Adams' Grammar School]], Newport, Shropshire, England
*[[Adams Park]], a football stadium in Buckinghamshire, England
*[[MSC.Adams]], engineering software
*[[Johann Friedrich Adam]], a botanist known by the author abbreviation "Adams"
*Adams, a [[jockstrap#Brands|brand of jockstrap]]
*"Adams", were a special type of people created in the 1950s in the Litchfield Experiment in the episode [[Eve (The X-Files)|"Eve" (The X-Files)]]


==External links==
== See also ==
* [[Adam]] (disambiguation)
* http://www.dday.org/
* [[All Dulles Area Muslim Society]]
* http://www.Omaha-Beach.Org
* [[Adams County (disambiguation)]]
[[Category:2001 establishments]]
* [[Adams Musical Instruments]]
[[Category:National Memorials of the United States|National D-Day Memorial]]
* [[Adams Township (disambiguation)]]
[[Category:United States military memorials and cemeteries]]
* [[Adamsburg]]
[[Category:World War II memorials and cemeteries]]
* [[Adamsdale (disambiguation)]]
* [[Adamstown (disambiguation)]]
* [[Adamsville (disambiguation)]]
* [[Addams (disambiguation)]]
* [[ADAMS - Automation Development and Management System]]

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