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Photo #: USA C-1232 (Color)

Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944

U.S. Army Soldiers boarding landing craft in a British port, while preparing for the Normandy operation, 1 May 1944.
A U.S. Navy LCI(L) is at left. A LCV from USS Thurston (AP-77).
Note barrage balloons aloft and on the ground.

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

Online Image: 110KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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27 January 2004