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USA C-708 Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944

Photo #: USA C-708 Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944
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Title: Normandy Invasion Preparations, 1944
Description: USS LST-357 loading vehicles in an English port, in preparation for the invasion of France, circa late May or early June 1944. An ambulance is visible backing aboard. Note LST-357's insignia painted inside her bow doors, Jeep at left, and the outboard drive unit (probably for a Rhino ferry) in the foreground. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: USA C-708
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