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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252759

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Infantrymen, in Jeeps, get directions from a U.S. Army Military Policeman at a Normandy crossroads, June 1944.
British Airspeed "Horsa" gliders are on the field in the background.
Note the Jeep's trailer and equipment, including a M1 rifle in a scabbard by the windshield.
Taken by Combat Photo Unit Eleven (CPU-11).

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

Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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8 January 2004