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| American A-20 Havoc bombers attacking railways behind German lines in Domfront, Orne, France, Jun 1944 | American M7 self-propelled howizer vehicle in Carentan, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Biscayne participating in amphibious exercises off Arzew, Algeria as flagship of US Navy Rear Admiral B. J. Rodgers, 10-11 Jun 1944 | Detonation of a naval mine off Normandy, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Escort carrier USS Long Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, on 10 Jun 1944 with a deck load of F6F Wildcat, SBD Dauntless, and J2F Duck aircraft bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | Firing an anti-aircraft machine gun off Normandy, France, Jun 1944 |
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| Rhino ferry RHF-19 landing CCKW trucks and other vehicles on Omaha Beach, circa 10 Jun 1944. Note Soldier in the right foreground, with waterproofing taped around his rifle. | Stormy weather in the English Channel, Jun 1944 |
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| US Army patrol examining a German 88 mm FlaK anti-aircraft gun with its barrel splayed by the retreating Germans near Montebourg, France, June 1944 | US Army vehicles moved inland from a Normandy invasion beach, Jun 1944 |
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| US Coast Guardsmen John Smith, African-American on left, and Daniel Kaczorowski, on right, manning a 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard a landing craft, circa mid- or late-1944 off France | A fully loaded DUKW coming ashore at Normandy, France, 11 Jun 1944. |
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| Biscayne, Doran, and another ship docked at Arzew, Algeria, 11 Jun 1944 | DUKW amphibious trucks operating off Normandy, 11 Jun 1944 |
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| Light cruiser Montpelier underway from the Marshall Islands en route for Saipan, Mariana Islands, 11 Jun 1944 | Member of the US Navy’s Second Beach Battalion examining a German SdKfz 302 Goliath remote-controlled mine (called Beetles by US forces) on Utah Beach, 11 June 1944. Note DUKW in the background. |
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| Members of the US Navy’s Second Beach Battalion disassembling two German SdKfz 302 Goliath remote-controlled mines (called Beetles by US forces) on Utah Beach, 11 June 1944. | A Jeep being towed ashore at Normandy, France, Jun 12, 1944. Note that censors have deleted markings on the Jeep's front bumper and an object at the right edge. Photo taken by US Navy Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8) |
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| Eisenhower, Arnold, King, and Marshall aboard a landing craft off Normandy, 12 Jun 1944 | Gen Dwight Eisenhower, Gen George Marshall, and Gen “Hap” Arnold, beside their VIP DUKW during their tour of the Normandy beachhead, Normandy, France, Jun 12, 1944. |
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