U. S. Army Rangers hit the beach in 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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475.Photograph. 'File Number: 45,717 Released: June 12. 1944 Life Line for the Rangers Assigned the hazardous task of silencing a Nazi key shore battery commanding a vital sector of the French coast, U. S. Army Rangers accomplished their task with speed and precision. They were supplied by means of landing craft like this, which hit the beach near the objective, were rapidly unloaded of their vital cargoes.' 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:
Soldiers--American--France
Beaches--France
Amphibious vehicles--American--France