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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252564

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Casualty evacuation boats in readiness on "Omaha" Beach, shortly after 6 June 1944.
Note: barge being beached at left, propelled by two LCMs; and ships sunk in the background to form the "Gooseberry" artificial harbor.
See Photo # 80-G-252567 for a view of these ships just before they were sunk.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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11 December 2003