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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-47392

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


"Rhino" ferry RHF-19 lands vehicles on "Omaha" Beach, circa 10 June 1944.
USS LST-502 is in the left background. British LCT-562 is beached at right.
In the right center distance is the sunken hulk of the old British battleship Centurion, which had been scuttled as part of the "Omaha" Beach "Gooseberry" artificial breakwater.
Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle, and the bulldozers at work behind him.

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

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2 February 2004