Photos Taken in France | World War II Database

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Canadian tank crew directs traffic around a disabled M4 Sherman tank while they install a new tread on a narrow road in Normandy, France, 1944. Note CMP ambulance and another CMP truck cab at right.	Cointet-element anti-tank obstacles placed on the beach to deter amphibious invasions, Normandy, France, Jun-Jul 1944

Convoy of US CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 transport trucks moving inland after heavy equipment cleared the road, Normandy, France, 1944; note Jeeps and heavy earth moving equipment	Cvilians placing flowers on the body of a dead American soldier, Carentan, France, mid-1944

Destroyed German Sd.Kfz. 124 Wespe self-propelled gun carriage near Mortrée, Orne, Normandy, France, circa Jun-Jul 1944	Engine change for M4 Sherman tank “Hurricane” at a repair depot near the front lines, Le Teilleul, France, July 1944. Note Federal C-2 Wrecker

French resistance fighters working with American paratroopers in Normandy, France, Jun-Jul 1944	German 150-mm artillery position Cherbourg, France, circa Jul 1944

German Tiger II tank near Vimoutiers, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France, circa Jun-Jul 1944	LCT-855 landing Dodge WC54 field ambulances at Normandy, France, Jun 1944

Mulberry harbor, off Normandie, France, 1944	Ram OP (Observation Post) tank in Normandy, France, mid-1944

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-28672 ‘Lois’ of the 513th Fighter Squadron armed with bombs and HVAR air-to-surface rockets, probably at Tour-en-Bessin Airfield, France, mid-1944.	Saint-Lô in ruins, France, Jun-Jul 1944

SdKfz 161/3 Möbelwagen and crew, northern France, summer 1944	Two Nuns and a French family examined the ruins of the bombed Église Saint-Malo, Valognes, France, Jul 1944

US Navy personnel (probably of USS LCT-535) posing with boxing gloves on a beach in Normandie, France, 1944	US Navy personnel at Normandie, France, 1944

USS LCT-535 disembarking a vehicle, Normandie, France, 1944	USS LCT-535 unloading vehicles onto a Normandie beach, France, 1944