U. S. Navy beach battalion's first night ashore in 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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U. S. Navy beach battalion's first night ashore in France in June 1944. "File No: 59413. June 9, 1944. Navy Goes Ashore in France. Hitting the beach - along with Army troops, members of a U. S. Navy beach battalion dig in for their first night ashore on a beachhead on the French coast." 9 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:
Soldiers--American--France
Beaches--France
Military vehicles--American--France
Foxholes--France