140 items in this album on 7 pages.
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| Paratrooper of US 101st Airborne Division holding a Nazi German flag captured in a village near Utah Beach, Saint-Marcouf, France, 8 Jun 1944 | American men and equipment being landed near Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 9 Jun 1944 |
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| Vehicles and British troops on board a LST off Utah Beach, Normandy, 9 Jun 1944 | Four US Army soldiers watching Allied bombardment, Saint-Lô, France, Jun 1944 |
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| German beach defense turret at Omaha Beach, Basse-Normandie, France, mid-Jun 1944 | Tracer fire from Allied warships lighting up the sky off Ouistreham, France, 10 Jun 1944; photo taken from HMS Mauritius, seen in foreground |
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| Traplin, Heldon, and Kennedy of the Canadian Army manning a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in Normandy, France, mid-Jun 1944 | 'Rhino' ferry vessel off Normandie, France, Jun 1944 |
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| British flail tank on the Normandy beach, France, Jun 1944 | British naval craft off Normandy, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Captured German remote-controlled explosive carriers, Normandy, France, Jun 1944 | Courseulles-sur-Mer in ruins, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Damaged German defensive fortification at Bernières-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944 | Damaged German defensive fortification at Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Sherman DD tank at Normandy, France, Jun 1944 | The 'Gooseberry' line of the 'Mulberry' artificial harbor off Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Two disabled M4 Sherman tanks and a litter Jeep near the heavily damaged Église Saint-Ouen in Rots, France (near Caen), Jun 11, 1944. | View of Juno Beach near Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944 |
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| View of the beach area at Bernières-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944 | View of the beach area at Courseulles-sur-Mer, France, Jun 1944 |
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