U.S. troops practice landing and broaching shore defenses in preparation for D-Day on English coastlines in 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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389.Photograph. "File No: 231,231 June 6, 1944 Up Grade to Victory Symbolizing the up-hill fight the Allies have had, these U. S. troops practice landing and broaching shore defenses in preparation for D-Day. Miles of English coastline were cleared of residents to provide a vast proving-ground for amphibious attack." Released 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--England
Beaches--England
Coastlines--England
Military training--England