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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-286409

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


A "Phoenix" caisson is towed across the English Channel by the tug Dexterous, for use as part of a "Mulberry" artificial harbor off the Normandy invasion beaches.
Photograph received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 21 November 1944. It was actually taken in June of that year.

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

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15 January 2004