Navy men aboard a landing craft keep lookout as they maneuver in the English channel while awaiting the order for the invasion 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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463.Photograph. 'File Number: 253466 June 17, 1944 Eyes Alert Navy men aboard a landing craft keep a sharp lookout on all quarters of the horizon as they maneuver in the English channel while awaiting the order to dash for the French invasion coast.' 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.
Geography:
English Channel
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50.000
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-1.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American
Machine guns--American
Cigarettes
Flags--American
Helmets