U.S. Army Rangers demonstrate how they used a ladder to take a German gun crew in Normandy 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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481.Photograph. 'File Number: 45,716 Released: June 12, 1944 Ladder To Success Credited with a large share of the laurels for the initial success of the landings on the French coast on D-Day by reason of their capture of a Nazi shore battery emplaced on a cliff overlooking the sea, U. S. Army Rangers show how they accomplished their feat. A long ladder strung up the side of the cliff was their 'ladder of success', enabling them to take the gun crew by surprise, wipe them out before they could bring their guns to bear and wreck havoc on the armada.' 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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Mountaineering--France
Cliffs--France
Troop movements--American--France
Ladders