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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-253138

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


LCT carrying Jeeps to the Normandy beach, after offloading them from USS LST-282, in the background, 15 June 1944.
Note engine breather tubes on the Jeeps, for fording the water between the LCT and the shore, and the bow ramp being raised on the LST. Jeeps have U.S. flags afixed to their windshields.
Taken by Combat Photo Unit Eleven (CPU-11).

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

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4 February 2004