Soldiers helping a landing party ashore from a life raft on the Normandy beaches in June 1944
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U.S. Army Signal Corp Photograph, Gift of Maude Hayman, from the collection of The National World War II Museum
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Soldiers helping a landing party ashore from a life raft. "ETO-HQ-44-5057. Weintraub. 12 June. Signal corps photo. Members of an American landing party help their buddies ashore from a life raft after their landing craft was sunk by enemy action, near Cherbourg, France." June 1944.
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Collection of European Theater U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs.
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Cherbourg
Latitude:
49.633
Longitude:
-1.617
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Rescue work--American--France
Beaches--France