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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 100087-KN (color)

M4 "Sherman" tank with bulldozer blade attachment (wearing number "82019-Y" and nicknamed "Defiance")

On a European landing beach, 1944.
The event is probably either a rehersal for the Normandy invasion, held at Slapton Sands, England, in the spring of 1944, or the invasion of southern France in August.
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