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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252577

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


German pillbox on "Omaha" Beach serving as a U.S. Army command post, during the early days of the invasion.
Note the truck and trailer in the foreground, and the barrage balloon over the pillbox.
Taken by Combat Photo Unit Eleven (CPU-11). This image was received by the Navy Photo Science Laboratory on 14 June 1944.

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

Online Image: 120KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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3 February 2004