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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: KN-17825 (Color)

"The Tough Beach"

Watercolor by Navy Combat Artist Dwight Shepler, 1944, showing German artillery fire hitting U.S. forces on "Omaha" Beach, on "D-Day" of the Normandy invasion, 6 June 1944. In the foreground is USS LCI(L)-93, aground and holed. She was lost on this occasion.

Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 555 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-17825

 

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25 November 2003