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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252761

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


A German sniper is brought into Corps Headquarters by a U.S. Army beach guard, near a Normandy invasion beach, 9 June 1944.
The little Nazi flag indicates that this is a posed event.
Note the guard's M1 rifle, with bayonet, cartridge belt and hand grenade.
Taken by Combat Photo Unit Eleven (CPU-11).

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

Online Image: 149KB; 740 x 635 pixels

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8 January 2004