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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USAF 51618 A.C.

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


9th Air Force gliders clutter fields near Cherbourg, during airborne landings in support of the Normandy invasion. Other gliders, and their C-47 tow planes, are overhead.
Note "Sherman" tanks on the road in the middle distance.

Official U.S. Air Force Photograph.

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25 November 2003