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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 189899

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


"D-Day" scene on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944.
USS LCI(L)-553, lost at this time, is partially visible in the left background.
LCVP landing craft at left is from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26).
Note vehicles and men on the beach, and "Caution .. No Signal .. Left Drive" sign on the vehicle in lower right.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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12 December 2003