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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 100086-KN (color)

North European Invasion Rehersals, spring 1944

U.S. Army troops and vehicles on the beach near Slapton Sands, England, during rehersals for the Normandy invasion. Vehicles nearest the camera include a "halftrack" truck (marked "4020899-S") and a M4 "Sherman" tank with floatation skirts.
USS LCT-201 is partially visible at left.
Photographed by a U.S. Coast Guard photographer from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26), using a 35mm camera.

Courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard Historian.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 March 2004