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Photo #: USA C-751 (Color)

Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944

A U.S. Army "half-track" antiaircraft machine gun vehicle (nicknamed "Brass City") backs into the well deck of a U.S. Navy LCT, during pre-invasion loading in an English port, circa late May or early June 1944.

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

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 515 pixels

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2 March 2004