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Photo #: SC 192719

Southern France Invasion, August 1944


Church services for men of the Third Division, on the forecastle of USS LST-4, one day out while en route to the Southern France landings, 13 August 1944.
Photographed by Smith.
Note 20mm and 40mm guns, with limiting rails around them to prevent firing into the ship's structure.

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

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27 November 1998