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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-286431

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


British LCTs piled up on the beach following the storm of 19-22 June 1944. The wreckage of a pontoon causeway and other facilities of a "Mulberry" artificial harbor are beyond the LCTs.
Note the bow door mechanism of the LCT at left.
Photographed by the Office of Strategic Services. It was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 21 November 1944, but 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