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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 26-G-2358

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


A Coast Guard manned LST approaches the Normandy coast on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
Note small radar antenna on the LST's bridge, signalman using a blinker lamp, U.S. star markings on some truck covers, and the folded bicycle stowed atop the vehicle in the lower right.

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

Online Image: 133KB; 600 x 765 pixels

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24 November 2003