Amphibious fleet seen through French Ruins 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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483.Photograph. 'File No: 59421 June 1 (not legible), 1944 Amphibious Fleet Seen Through French Ruins Through the battered roof of a building on the French invasion coast can be seen ships of the Allies amphibious fleet. Naval gunfire crumpled the roof early on D-Day. ' not legible 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
War damage--France
Beaches--France
Obstacles (Military science)--France
Landing craft--American--France
Coastlines--France
Barrage balloons--American--France