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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-45672

"Rhino" ferry (RHF)


USS LST-347 unloads a bulldozer and other materiel onto a "rhino", which will transport the vehicles and supplies to shore.
Photograph released on 6 June 1944, at the time of the Normandy invasion, in which both the "rhino" ferries and LST-347 took part. It was probably taken in an English port during the invasion preparation period.

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

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6 January 2004