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SC 195619 Normandy Invasion, June 1944

Photo #: SC 195619 Normandy Invasion, June 1944
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Title: Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Description: Transfer point on Omaha Beach, where the cargos of DUKW amphibious trucks were reloaded on other trucks for transfer to supply and ammunition depots. Photographed on 19 July 1944. A Gooseberry artificial breakwater of sunken ships is in the distance, with the old British battleship Centurion in the center. Note the X shaped section of Bombardon floating breakwater beached near the shoreline in the left center. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: SC 195619
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