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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-47381

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


"SeaBee" mobile repair shop on a large pontoon, used to support the "Mulberry" artificial harbor off the Normandy beachhead in mid-1944.
Note the "USS 'Can-Do'" emblem, tent, quonset hut, tattered U.S. Ensign and Jeep on the pontoon, plus crowd of shipping in the distance.
Photograph was released for publication on 27 December 1944, in preparation for the "SeaBees" third anniversary onj 28 December.

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

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6 January 2004