Image:NormandySupply.jpg

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Description

Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach, at low tide during the first days of the operation, mid-June, 1944. Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (in the center of the view); USS LST-262 (3rd LST from right); USS LST-310 (2nd LST from right); USS LST-533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST-524. Note barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach. The LST-262 was one of 10 Coast Guard-manned LSTs that participated in the invasion of Normandy, France.
Source

Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
First version is Naval Historical Center image 26-G-2517 from the United States Coast Guard Collection.
Higher resolution version is from The Coast Guard at Normandy (direct image URL [1]).
Date

June, 1944. Uploaded 2004-03-29 (first version); 2006-10-19 (last version)
Author

Coast Guard
Original uploader was Hephaestos at en.wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Ydorb at en.wikipedia.
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Public domain
Other versions Image:NormandySupply edit.jpg (cleaned-up version)

[edit] License information

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).

[edit] Original upload log

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  • 2006-10-19 17:39 Ydorb 2807×2153×8 (3649926 bytes) From http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/LST262_Normandy_300.jpg
  • 2004-03-29 16:12 Hephaestos 739×594×8 (39183 bytes) Supplying Normandy coast

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current11:07, 20 May 20072,807×2,153 (3.48 MB)Yonidebest ({{Information |Description=Landing ships putting en:cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, en:June, en:1944. Among identifiable ships present are LST-532 (i)
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