Image:Landing on the coast of France.jpg

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Description

Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat.
Source

NARA image 26-G-2343/Vendor #93 (direct image URL [1])
Also on NARA's Pictures of World War II page (direct image URL [2])
Date

June 6, 1944
Author

Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHOM) Robert F. Sargent, U.S. Coast Guard
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Public domain; official U.S. Coast Guard photograph
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Public domain This image is a work of a United States Coast Guard service personnel or employee, taken or made during the course of a serviceman or employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105).

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