File:Approaching Omaha.jpg

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current10:06, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 10:06, 3 January 20173,000 × 2,147 (1.24 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>Photo #: SC 320901 </p> <p>Normandy Invasion, June 1944 </p> <p>Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. Note helmet netting; faint "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_Smoking&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="No Smoking (page does not exist)">No Smoking</a>" sign on the LCVP's ramp; and M1903 rifles and M1 carbines carried by some of these men. This photograph was taken from the same <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=LCVP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LCVP (page does not exist)">LCVP</a> as Photo # SC 189986. </p> <p>Original Source: </p> <p>Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives. </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s300000/s320901c.htm">http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s300000/s320901c.htm</a> </p> <p>Higher Resolution Source: </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/Normandy/Pictures.htm">http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/Normandy/Pictures.htm</a> </p>
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