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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USA C-727 (Color)

Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944

U.S. Soldiers march through a southern English coastal town, en route to board landing ships for the invasion of France, circa late May or early June 1944.
Note the barbed wire in the foreground.

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

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 530 pixels

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1 March 2004