The painting evokes the landing of Sergeant de Montlaur on the morning of June 6, 1944. Its construction is very neat, almost geometric. The painter uses the diagonals to represent the large anti-tank and anti-barge metal crossed beams that stood on the beaches. The painting is dynamic: one can imagine the soldier running up the beach, enemy bullets hitting the sand around him. A white swirl symbolizes movement, perhaps the fall of a body or the blast of a shell. As in the painting “Souvenir Normand” , which was painted in the same period of time, the bright colors symbolize blood -red, fire -yellow, metal -black.