Completely equipped with rifles and field packs, helmeted U.S. troops receive embarkation training at an English port, with British Royal Marine Commandos acting as instructors in May 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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388.Photograph. 'File No: 231,227 June 6, 1944 All aboard that are going ashore Completely equipped with rifles and field packs, helmeted U. S. troops receive embarkation training at an English port, with British Royal Marine Commandos acting as instructors. Since H-Hour such troops are embarking again from transports like these ---on enemy shores.' 6 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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England
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53.000
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-2.000
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Military vehicles--American--England
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