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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-231248

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


View of the invasion force off the Normandy coast, photographed from USS Ancon (AGC-4), with "Omaha" Beach in the background and barrage balloons overhead. The amount of smoke on the beach strongly indicates that the photograph was taken on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
USS LST-373 is at right.

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

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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11 December 2003