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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-59405

Normandy Invasion, June 1944


Rhino ferry RHF-24, loaded with U.S. Army personnel and vehicles, undergoes tests off the English coast, prior to the Normandy invasion. Note the barrage balloon overhead.
Photograph released 10 June 1944, but taken well before that time.

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

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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21 January 2004