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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252568

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Scene on "Omaha" Beach soon after the "D-Day" landings, showing stranded landing craft and piles of supplies.
USS LCT-555 is in the center, with her stern toward the beach. British LCT(A)(5)-2421 is beyond her, to the left, lying parallel to the beach.
The photograph was released for publication on 15 June 1944.
See Photo # 80-G-252557 for a view of this area taken from the opposite direction.

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

Online Image: 137KB; 740 x 630 pixels

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11 December 2003