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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-253021

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


A U.S. Navy LST down by the stern off the Normandy beaches, the victim of a German attack, 15 June 1944.
Note davits for LCVP landing craft by the LST's starboard side, and single 40mm gun at left, with ammunition in its feed hopper.

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

Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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18 December 2003