US Flags fly proudly as a pair of landing craft hits the beach somewhere 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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488.Photograph. 'File Number: 252624 June 20, 1944 Old Glory Goes Ashore in France National Ensigns fly proudly as a pair of landing craft hits the beach somewhere in Normandy. Overhead barrage balloons protect against dive-bomber attack.' 20 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:
Beaches--France
Amphibious vehicles--American--France
Landing craft--American--France
Flags--American
Barrage balloons--American
Buildings--France
Signal flags