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File:Approaching Omaha.jpg

Description Photo #: SC 320901

Normandy Invasion, June 1944

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. Note helmet netting; faint " No Smoking" sign on the LCVP's ramp; and M1903 rifles and M1 carbines carried by some of these men. This photograph was taken from the same LCVP as Photo # SC 189986.

Original Source:

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s300000/s320901c.htm

Higher Resolution Source:

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/Normandy/Pictures.htm
Date 2004-06-25 (first version); 2006-11-12 (last version)
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