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Photo #: USA C-1050 (Color)

Northern European Invasion Rehersals, 1944

Corporal Louis E. Laird, U.S. Army Paratrooper, boards a C-47 transport plane during dress rehersals for the Normandy invasion. Photographed at an English airfield, circa spring 1944.
Note his "Bazooka" anti-tank rocket launcher, sheath knife on his left leg, camouflaged helmet, and 101st Airborne Division shoulder patch.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 88KB; 515 x 765 pixels

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26 January 2004