USS Augusta looms mammoth in size in comparison to the tiny landing craft speeding toward 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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486. Photograph. 'File Number: 45, 720 June 12, 1944 U.S.S. Augusta Lies Off 'Invasion Coast'-- Steaming in almost within rifle range of the French coast, the U. S. Navy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) looms mammoth in size in comparison to the tiny landing craft speeding toward shore.' 12 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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Cruisers (Warships)--American--France
Landing craft--American--France
Soldiers--American--France