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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-252647

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Scene on one of the invasion beaches on 10 June 1944, showing a "Rhino" (RHF) barge unloading in the left center. Another "Rhino" is offshore, with its cargo still on board.
USS LCT-580 is beached at the waterline in right center. At far right, also beached, is USS LCT-766.
Note the mass of shipping in the distance, protected by large number of barrage balloons.

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

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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29 December 2003