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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 199797

European Campaign, 1944-1945


A French Army "Sherman" tank lands on a Normandy beach from USS LST-517, 2 August 1944.
Note the plaque, reading "SOMUA", mounted in front of the tank driver's hatch.

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

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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25 November 2003