Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-46817

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Landing Ships Tank (LST) land invasion supplies on "Omaha" Beach, shortly after the 6 June 1944 "D-Day" assault.
LSTs on the beach include (from right to left): USS LST-312; British LST-320 and LST-321; USS LST-72; a U.S. Navy LST (LST-51_ - last digit not visible); British LST-324; USS LST-311; USS LST-49; USS LST-373; USS LST-47 and two unidentified LSTs.
Note: bow numbers of the British ships enclosed in colored blocks; crowd of shipping offshore; barrage balloons over many of the ships.
Photograph was released for publication on 23 October 1944.

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

Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

 

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

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

29 December 2003