Landing supplies along the coast of Normandy, France in June 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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477.Photograph. 'File Number: 252,568 June 15, 1944 Bridge Across the Channel Though the battle for the beachhead has moved inland, the French coast is still busy as thousands of ships shuttle back and forth from England in the endless operation of supplying the Allied forces. This is a scene at one of the sectors of the coastline.' 15 June 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Normandie
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Landing craft--American--France
Beaches--France
Soldiers--American--France