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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-45714

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Scene on "Omaha" Beach on the afternoon of "D-Day", 6 June 1944, showing casualties on the beach, a bogged-down "Sherman" tank, several wrecked trucks and German anti-landing obstructions. A LST is beached in the left distance and invasion shipping is off shore.

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

Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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11 December 2003