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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252734

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Navy Beach Battalion takes over a German bunker and slit trenches on a Normandy beach, 11 June 1944.
Note the LCT and other landing vessels in the background, DUKW amphibious trucks, and barbed wire atop the seawall.
Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8).

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

Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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7 January 2004