Image:Normandy Invasion, June 1944.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Source: cropped from http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/d00001/d02517c.htm Photo #: 26-G-2517


Normandy Invasion, June 1944.

Landing ships putting cargo ashore on one of the invasion beaches, at low tide during the first days of the operation, June 1944. Among identifiable ships present are USS LST‑532 (in the center of the view); USS LST‑262 (third LST from right); USS LST‑310 (second LST from right); USS LST‑533 (partially visible at far right); and USS LST‑524. Note the barrage balloons overhead and Army "half-track" convoy forming up on the beach.


Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
See the DoD copyright policy.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current11:43, 10 November 2004740×594 (141 KB)Duffman
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):