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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-45671

"Rhino" ferry (RHF)


Navy "SeaBees" joining pontoon boxes together to assemble a "rhino". Photograph released on 6 June 1944, at the time of the Normandy invasion, in which "rhino" ferries played a significant role.
Each "rhino" consisted of 180 pontoons attached together, six across and thirty long. The individual pontoons were welded steel boxes 5' x 7' x 5' in size.

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

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6 January 2004