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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252834

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Men on a "Rhino" (RHF) pontoon barge duck to avoid fire from a strafing German airplane, off Normandy on 11 June 1944. LCT-522 is backing away from the Rhino.
Sunken ships of a "Gooseberry" artificial harbor breakwater are in the background.
Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8).

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

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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18 December 2003