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Photo # SC-189919:  Wounded Soldiers receive cigarettes and food after they stormed Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- World War II in Europe --

Normandy Invasion, June 1944
-- "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944 -- Part II


This page features more views concerning the 6 June 1944 landings on "Omaha" Beach.

For further images of the "D-Day" landings on this Beach, see:

  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach.

    For images of the "D-Day" landings on other beaches, see:

  • The "D-Day" Landings, 6 June 1944; and

    For other pictures related to the invasion of Normandy, see:

  • Normandy Invasion, June 1944 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: SC 189899

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    "D-Day" scene on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944.
    USS LCI(L)-553, lost at this time, is partially visible in the left background.
    LCVP landing craft at left is from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26).
    Note vehicles and men on the beach, and "Caution .. No Signal .. Left Drive" sign on the vehicle in lower right.

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

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-45714

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Scene on "Omaha" Beach on the afternoon of "D-Day", 6 June 1944, showing casualties on the beach, a bogged-down "Sherman" tank, several wrecked trucks and German anti-landing obstructions. A LST is beached in the left distance and invasion shipping is off shore.

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

    Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 189935

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Troops of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division assemble on a narrow strip of "Omaha" beach before moving inland near Collville-sur-Mer on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. USS LCI(L)-83 is in the background, landing more men.
    Photographed by Taylor.
    For a closeup view of casualties in this location, see Photo # SC 189924.

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

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 189924

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Dead Soldiers on "Omaha" beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. They were members of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.
    Photographed by Taylor.
    Note inflatable life belts draped over some of the bodies, and a box over another.
    For a broader area view taken from this location, see Photo # SC 189935.

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

    Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 520 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 26-G-2397

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    An American Soldier lies dead alongside an anti-landing craft obstruction on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944. He is wearing an inflatable life belt.
    Note rifles by his feet, an M1 semiautomatic rifle on the sand, with a M1903 bolt-action rifle laid across it.

    Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 189910

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Wounded men of the 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, receive cigarettes and food after they had stormed "Omaha" beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.

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

    Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For further images of the "D-Day" landings on this Beach, see:

  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach.

    For images of the "D-Day" landings on other beaches, see:

  • The "D-Day" Landings, 6 June 1944; and

    For other pictures related to the invasion of Normandy, see:

  • Normandy Invasion, June 1944 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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