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Photo # 26-G-2337:  Landing craft put troops ashore on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944

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-- EVENTS -- World War II in Europe --

Normandy Invasion, June 1944
-- "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944

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This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning the 6 June 1944 landings on "Omaha" Beach.

For further images of the "D-Day" landings on "Omaha" Beach, see:

  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach -- Part II; and
  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach -- Offshore Activities.

    For images of the "D-Day" landings on other beaches, see:

  • The "D-Day" Landings, 6 June 1944; and

    For other pictures related to the invasion of Normandy, see:

  • Normandy Invasion, June 1944 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 26-G-2337

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    LCVP landing craft put troops ashore on "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
    The LCVP at far left is from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26).

    Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 132KB; 740 x 630 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 26-G-2343

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Army troops wade ashore on "Omaha" Beach during the "D-Day" landings, 6 June 1944.
    They were brought to the beach by a Coast Guard manned LCVP.

    Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 320901

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
    Note helmet netting; faint "No Smoking" sign on the LCVP's ramp; and M1903 rifles and M1 carbines carried by some of these men.
    This photograph was taken from the same LCVP as Photo # SC 189986.

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

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 560 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 189986

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Troops watch activity ashore on "Omaha" Beach as their LCVP landing craft approaches the shore on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
    This photograph was taken from the same LCVP as Photo # SC 320901.

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

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 595 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 320902

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Troops wade ashore from a LCVP landing craft, off "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944.
    Note DUKWs and half-tracks at the water line, lines of men headed inland, and M1903 and M1 rifles carried by some of the troops leaving the landing craft.

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

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 510 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: KN-17825 (Color)

    "The Tough Beach"

    Watercolor by Navy Combat Artist Dwight Shepler, 1944, showing German artillery fire hitting U.S. forces on "Omaha" Beach, on "D-Day" of the Normandy invasion, 6 June 1944. In the foreground is USS LCI(L)-93, aground and holed. She was lost on this occasion.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 555 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-17825

     
    Photo #: 80-G-421287

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    USS LCI(L)-553 and USS LCI(L)-410 land troops on "Omaha" Beach, during the initial assault there on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
    Photographed from the conning station of another LCI(L) LCI(L)-553, hit by two shells, was left a wreck on the beach on "D-Day".

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-421288

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    USS LCI(L)-553 lands troops on "Omaha" Beach, during the initial "D-Day" assault, 6 June 1944.
    This LCI(L) was lost during this action.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-421289

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Troops land from USS LCI(L)-412 during the "D-Day" assault on "Omaha" Beach, 6 June 1944.
    Note "half-track" weapons carriers at the water's edge, with their guns pointing inland; troops dug in on the shore; and LCI(L)-412's bow 20mm gunner engaging enemy targets.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For further images of the "D-Day" landings on "Omaha" Beach, see:

  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach -- Part II; and
  • "D-Day" Landings on "Omaha" Beach -- Offshore Activities.

    For images of the "D-Day" landings on other beaches, see:

  • The "D-Day" Landings, 6 June 1944; and

    For other pictures related to the invasion of Normandy, see:

  • Normandy Invasion, June 1944 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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