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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-285130

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Part of a "Gooseberry" breakwater of sunken ships, forming part of an artificial harbor off the Normandy coast.
Photograph dated 7 November 1944, but actually taken in June of that year.
Note barrage balloons overhead, and large numbers on the sunken ships.

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

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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30 December 2003